[sdiy] PC board from artwork?

Vladimir Pantelic vladoman at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 13:02:21 CEST 2016


On 20.10.2016 12:55, john slee wrote:
> On 20 October 2016 at 17:51, Gordonjcp <gordonjcp at gjcp.net
> <mailto:gordonjcp at gjcp.net>> wrote:
> 
>     The other nice thing about Kicad is that all the board and component
>     files are plain text - just plain text, telling it what line to draw
>     where.  This is ridiculously compatible with version control
>     systems, so you can keep your PCB designs and custom libraries in
>     Git without having to replace entire binaries every time you update
>     them.
> 
> 
> Same applies for Eagle files for a while now. It's ugly XML, but at
> least it's that and not some opaque binary format

I work from two PCs and I have git "merged" overlapping changes into
Eagle sch and brd files quite often already.





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