[ILUG] linux PCB software

[Padraig Brady]

Martin Feeney wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:44:45 Padraig Brady wrote:
> 
>> Are there any programs for designing PCBs
>> on Linux (I've had a look @
>> http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/ and
>> it wouldn't work at all)
> 
> 
> Ones I've messed about with (a few months ago):
> 
> Oregano:
> http://oregano.codefactory.se/
> 
> XCircuit:
> http://xcircuit.sourceforge.net/
> 
> PCB (which you know about):
> 
> electric:
> http://www.staticfreesoft.com/
> 
> They all work to an extent, it all depends on what you want
> to do with them.
> 
> If it's just layout, then PCB is probably your best bet,
> but it's got a limited library.
> 
> For very low-level simulation, electric is good.
> 
> Oregano looks nice, but I've yet to play with it fully.  It's
> a gnome app if that's your cup of tea.
> 
> Xcircuit I found unusable - I couldn't find any way to load netlists,
> so I eventually gave up on it.
> 
> In the end none of them suited me very well, so I gave up and did the 
> layout of my pcb on graph-paper.  One of these day, I'll actually
> build it.
> 
> You could try having a look at the following list for even more apps:
> 
> http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Office/CAE.html
> 
> Martin.
> 


Thanks! It's just layout I'm looking for at the moment,
so yes PCB does look like it's the "best". I'll put
more effort into getting it working now.

thanks,
Padraig.