[sdiy] PCB/Schematic software

[Donald Tillman]

On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Harry Bissell wrote:

> My Hiwire II software is becoming REALLY long in the tooth (its a DOS program
> which is difficult to impossible to run beyond WIN98. That said it is a pretty
> bug-free solution for schematic / netlist / PCB artwork / Gerber output
> 
> What does anyone like these days ?


I've recently completed a pretty advanced board with gEDA/PCB, and I have to say that I like it a lot.

XWindows on a Mac.

There's a bit of a learning curve, I had to build many symbols and footprints myself, but I think that's true of just about any system.  But overall I'm very impressed with it.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
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