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

["Eric Ellison" <ecellison@comcast.net>]

Folks

I also really like Kicad, but was really just trying to go with the
majority. I'll stick with Kicad since I got a little start with it on
lunchtimes. It would be great if the Libraries could be 'expanded'
automagically. I believe the drill file stuff has been corrected in the
later version with an option for different output file formats.

Thanks
Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: xylo-sdr-bounces@lists.ae5k.us [mailto:xylo-sdr-bounces@lists.ae5k.us]
On Behalf Of Robert McGwier
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:28 AM
To: Xylo-SDR Discussion
Subject: Re: [Xylo-SDR] Comments on Board sizes & Eagle Light edition

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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