[sdiy] PCB Layout Software?

[Donald Tillman]

On Aug 12, 2013, at 9:50 AM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:

> gschem/pcb (aka gEDA) is very nice, but the library is a mess.



Indeed; there are a collection of symbols and footprints, and they serve as great examples, but they're not consistent enough to be considered a proper library.

I've built my own library, very straightforward and easy to do, and I have my own standards for how they should work. 

User's needs are going to be wildly diverse, so in practice I think most people will end up building their own libraries anyway, or at least heavily modifying existing symbols and footprints, and so a universal standard library may not be the best goal.

  -- Don

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