[sdiy] [OT] LM13700 spotted in commercial product of big Manufacturer

[jslee]

On Wed, 18 May 2022, at 07:39, Brian Willoughby wrote:
> Over the years - working with several fab houses in King County, WA - 
> I've learned how to do this affordably within the US. A bonus is that 
> you can create DRC (Design Rule Check) files that are specific to each 
> fab. Then you can copy a PCB design, change the associated DRC, and the 
> next Gerbers you create will be altered to match the available 
> services. Smart shops like OSHPark will provide the EAGLE DRC file for 
> you, and you can use that to check your PCB designs for compatibility 
> with their services, as well as use it to create the Gerbers 
> specifically for OSHPark.

I was recently looking at Kicad again, wondering if it might finally be
feasible to implement an equivalent of my front-panel generation
software, and was astonished to find that it simply doesn't have an
equivalent of Eagle's DRU or CAM files. None. At all.

(Fully expecting a Kicad user to chime in here with "but those only
take 5 seconds to configure", completely ignoring the cost of the
human error that WILL happen at every step where the available
choices aren't removed or reduced)

I am left wondering, not for the first or even third time, how anyone
gets actual work done with Kicad. Bizarre.

John