Re: [Xylo-SDR] Comments on Board sizes & Eagle Light edition

[Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier@comcast.net>]

Where is the script and is the patch applied to the current download?  I 
really like kicad and if it is stable, produces good output, and will 
import Eagle libraries, I am going to give it a real shot.  Thanks as 
always for your great work on this.

Bob
N4HY


Philip Covington wrote:

> There is a script available that will let you convert eagle libraries
> to Kicad library format.  I have used it a few times and it works ok. 
> Kicad libraries are ASCII files, so it is easy to create your own
> library wizard if you can program a bit.  Any package you buy/use you
> are going to have some kind of learning curve whether it is Eagle,
> PADS, ORCAD, Kicad, gEDA, etc...
>
> For someone who has not invested money in a package, Kicad is very
> attractive.  There was a mention of some incompatibility in Kicad's
> drill file output, but that is easily corrected with a patch.  At
> first I just wrote a few line Python script to message the output into
> the proper format.  Later I modified the source code.
>
> 73 de Phil N8VB
>
>  


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