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Re: bigger boards on Eagle Light

2005-06-20 by Phil

Haven't tried it.  Have you looked at www.freepcb.com?  

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Ted Huntington <thunting@u...>
wrote:
> Has anybody ever tried "PCB" for Linux?  I wish there was a good open 
> source PCB program.  Since I had to draw almost all of my components in 
> Eagle, I was thinking that I might as well use PCB, but perhaps only
for 
> big boards.
> 
> Ted
> 
> 
> On 6/20/2005 3:06 PM, Phil wrote:
> 
> >That does seem like a huge amount of work to avoid paying for
> >something.  Much better to modularize your design and do multiple
> >boards if you don't want to pay for it.
> >
> >Me, I paid for eagle and am glad I don't have to deal with that sort
> >of thing.
> >
> >--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.
com, "Stefan Trethan"
> ><stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:53:51 +0200, David McNab <david@r...>  
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Might try that - but there might be some different complications:
> >>> - need for two schematics
> >>> - constraint on the autorouter of having to interface the boards
> >>>   through fixed-position pads
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>What you end up with is a bunch of librarys that are all too small,
> >>    
> >>
> >better  
> >  
> >
> >>get the real version now, if you get it eventually it makes no
> >>    
> >>
> >difference.
> >  
> >
> >>Also, i dunno about eagle, but i for one am glad i can pester my PCB  
> >>software manufacturer with all the problems it has (and there are
> >>    
> >>
> >plenty,  
> >  
> >
> >>sadly..)
> >>
> >>
> >>ST
> >>    
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