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webmaster_ph

Joined: 05 Sep 2003
Posts: 145
Location: U.S.A.

15 Sep 2007 17:35 pcb linux

hi fellow edaboarders,

i'm searching for the best pcb design package in linux.

criteria is: ease of use, speed, low system requirements

pls. give recommendations.

arnab.bhaumik

Joined: 20 Sep 2006
Posts: 73
Helped: 2

23 Sep 2007 20:11 linux pcb design

use geda, it includs gschem for schematics drawing
and PCB for pcb drawing and many more.

also u can use kicad. it is also a complete eda suite.

both software r very good and it dows the work.

arnab/vu2bpw

arthurmagill

Joined: 31 Oct 2007
Posts: 4

01 Nov 2007 14:19 pcb design linux

I use Eagle. It's not too expensive (look for the non-commercial option), and easy to learn. Runs under Windows and Linux.

http://www.cadsoft.de/

Arthur

Clunixchit

Joined: 15 Jul 2007
Posts: 37

15 Nov 2007 7:43 linux pcb

Fedora provides a Livecd CD "Fedora Electronic Lab" in which you have pcb and gEDA on it.
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/pcb.html

arnab.bhaumik

Joined: 20 Sep 2006
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15 Nov 2007 14:35 eagle pcb fedora

also eagle is ther for linux. you can do double sided board with eagle with area restriction.

arnab/vu2bpw

sunnySan

Joined: 23 Nov 2005
Posts: 29
Location: Europe

22 Nov 2007 11:52 geda pcb layer

I use Kicad,
Complexe at the start but very good after following their mini online tutorial
Very good package. and university money well spend

Sunny San

kiavash

Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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22 Nov 2007 23:29 best linux pcb

[quote="webmaster_ph"]hi fellow edaboarders,

i'm searching for the best pcb design package in linux.

criteria is: ease of use, speed, low system requirements

pls. give recommendations.[/quote]

I tried gEDA and Eagle for Layout and Schematic. Also I used Allegro (OrCAD) and I can say that Eagle (for its price) is definitely a good option. If you have enough (extra) money Allegro is the best!

EricJuve

Joined: 26 Feb 2008
Posts: 1

26 Feb 2008 21:00 linux pcb drawing

I have used Eagle PCB profesionally for several years. It is a well executed product and very easy to learn and use. It has a very effective command line interface in addition to the drag and drop. The only weakness is the library management but once you get used to it that is not a show stopper. Though I haven't used any of the other packages under Linux, I highly recomend Eagle.

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No one

Joined: 11 May 2005
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15 Aug 2009 13:41 geda to eagle

Hello Friends;
Which of them is the best for designing multi-layer PCBs? Which of them has gerber-file output?

lollobrigido

Joined: 13 Dec 2002
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Location: Italy

30 Sep 2009 13:27 Re: best pcb design package under linux

I'm using kicad, for two layers and 4 layers pcb, and I'm very happy. I used for years protel, using only 50% of its capabilities, in kicat I use 90% and is good for me. A good think is that you can make your own scripts or software to handle directly it's files because the are textual one. So, for example, if you want to change all the hole to one value you can do it very easily.
Lollo