[sdiy] getting started with a PCB/schem application

[John Luciani]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Jason Proctor <jason at redfish.net> wrote:
> i'd like to try my hand at making PCBs in the forseeable. what is the
> panel's favoured Mac application for schem entry and board layout etc?
>
> i have taken shallow dips in Osmond and Eagle etc but found them quite
> unfriendly. eg i haven't even managed to find a TL072 opamp in any of the
> included or easily found libraries!

Give gEDA/PCB a try. My footprint libraries are at www.luciani.org.
There are variety of tools to help make libraries. It is easy to
script a variety of EDA task like footprint creation, symbol
creation and circuit replication.

I have a simple circuit example which is a remix of the draw + audio circuit.
See http://tinyurl.com/bq8pq4

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