Phil wrote:
> The real issue for me is the availability of libraries though I agree
> that schematic capture/edit is a deal breaker. I kind of just assume
> that any reasonable system will have a decent one. I like eagle
> because there are a lot of libraries free for the using and the lib
> editor is reasonably capable (though cumbersome to use).
>
> If I were trying to push a new system, I'd have a gazillion libraries
> out there to make it trivially easy to get going. Also, I'd have a
> bunch of predefined symbols (packages, schematic symbols) that I
> could use to quickly add a new part. There is nothing more
> discouraging than to start a design and discover that you need to
> create all sorts of new parts completely from scratch. A 15 minute
> job becomes hours of tedium in looking up layouts and so on.
Of high importance is the ease of creating new libraries and parts.
You should have your own library and only import a part into it
after checking and fixing it.
> Actually, if it were me, I'd figure out to import other systems
> libraries. heh heh....
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Russell Shaw <rjshaw@n...>
> wrote:
>
>>Stefan Trethan wrote:
>>
>>>>Anything that's not open source is not yours whatever you pay. If
>>>>the vendor disappears, you're on borrowed time.
>>>>
>>>Any open sorce pcb software out there?
>>
>>"pcb" for linux. I haven't used it, because there's no matching
>>schematic editor i like.
>