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From: Dave Plowman (News) on 29 Apr 2010 04:27 In article <37e25e9d-6ef6-4b06-bc9d-95b84212ad92(a)d39g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, fynnashba(a)yahoo.com <fynnashba(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Please can anyone show me an easy- to- use PCB software that can > automaticaly prepare a circuit board after drawing the schematic > diagram? Or one that you just mount the components to get PCB. That's missing out the best part of designing your own. ;-) -- *Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film * Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.
From: JeffM on 29 Apr 2010 22:07
fynnashba(a)yahoo.com >>an easy- to- use PCB software >> Rich Webb wrote: >KiCad [...] and gEDA [...] are each free, open source suites >with schematic capture and board layout. > TinyCAD and FreePCB are also FOSS and work quasi-well together. (Windoze-only, but both will run fine under WINE.) >[...]gEDA. As far as I know, >there is not an official MS Windows distribution available. > Previously, they had produced Windoze-compatible binaries but they stopped when the mailing list got cluttered with inane questions from people who could barely use Windoze--much less use an ECAD. Dan McMahill maintains the build script for getting gEDA going under Windoze. If you can get thru that successfully, it demonstrates that you might be qualified to use the package. http://google.com/search?q=site:seul.org+Dan+build_pcb.script+Dan+OR+McMahill Some boot-to-a-desktop Linux disks contain both gEDA and KiCAD. Ubuntu Electronics Remix and Fedora Electronic Lab Spin are probably the most up to date. You can run those without installing anything. Ubuntu and Fedora can write to FAT32 and NTFS partitions. ....and this question doesn't qualify as "repair". Questions about ECADs belong in sci.electronics.cad just as beginners' questions belong in sci.electronics.basics. |