Re: [Xylo-SDR] Questions - Enclosure - MB - Kicad

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

Phil

Spectacular! I advocate Kicad! If we could import the parts it is BETTER
than Eagle. (smile).

I'll try to get a 'picture' of the MB. I would like to keep the 2x4 design
for the front mounted components and add 1 4x4 board to the rear to
accommodate larger parts such as Phil's BPF board, and have the rear mounted
board have access to the buss, although not necessarily many of the
connections. The rear facing board would have the power supply, antenna
connections facing rearward. 

Eric




-----Original Message-----
From: xylo-sdr-bounces@lists.ae5k.us [mailto:xylo-sdr-bounces@lists.ae5k.us]
On Behalf Of Philip Covington
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:14 PM
To: Xylo-SDR Discussion
Subject: Re: [Xylo-SDR] Questions - Enclosure - MB - Kicad

On 1/11/06, Eric Ellison <ecellison@comcast.net> wrote:

> Stupid question. Is it possible to mount one 96 pin staggered connector on
> the back of the Motherboard. My dyslexic mind can't figure it. Are all the
> traces on plated through holes in 2 planes.

Don't know what you mean here.  Can you make a drawing of what you are
proposing?

> Kicad posted a new version in the last few days. Someone on the forum
> contributed a parts designer. Drill stuff was apparently solved in a
> December (or earlier) release. I'm back to Kicad, it REALLY IS an elegant
> program. There is an Oracad translator but didn't see if this was for
> 'parts' or schematics or what. I didn't see an Eagle .lib translator, but
> that WOULD be great!

There is.  It is called exp-kicad-lib.ulp

http://www.philcovington.com/BAK/exp-kicad-lib.ulp

You have to run it from inside Eagle as a user language program.  It
will export the libraries in Kicad format.

Also,  I am able to know compile Kicad on Windows (I could only
successfully compile it under Linux before) so if anyone is interested
I can tell you what I did to get the enviroment set up to compile it.

73 de Phil N8VB

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