Eagle

[Dale Gloer]

I'm just starting to use Eagle for PCB design. Is there a users group
and/or a FAQ fro new users that I can reference for assistance?

Dale Gloer

 

[Leon Heller]

I'm just starting to use Eagle for PCB design. Is there a users group
and/or a FAQ fro new users that I can reference for assistance?

Commiserations!

Try the CadSoft web site, if you must use non-intuitive software.

Leon

 

[Scott Stephens]

I'm just starting to use Eagle for PCB design. Is there a users group
and/or a FAQ fro new users that I can reference for assistance?

Dale Gloer

At news.cadsoft.de

--
Scott

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DIY Piezo-Gyro, PCB Drill Bot & More Soon!

http://home.comcast.net/~scottxs/

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[Walter Harley]

Try the CadSoft web site, if you must use non-intuitive software.

Sure, I'll bite. "Which CAD software do you prefer, Leon?"

 

[Leon Heller]

Sure, I'll bite. "Which CAD software do you prefer, Leon?"

Pulsonix: http://www.pulsonix.com

Leon

 

[Walter Harley]

Pulsonix: http://www.pulsonix.com

Good heavens. Well, it may be intuitive, but my company will have to be an
awful lot more profitable before I can find out for myself, at those prices.

 

[Chaos Master]

In reply to a radio transmission from Dale Gloer([email protected]) ,
located at Mars:

I'm just starting to use Eagle for PCB design. Is there a users group
and/or a FAQ fro new users that I can reference for assistance?

news.cadsoft.de -> CadSoft groups, access with newsreader
www.cadsoftusa.com -> great site.

 

[Martin Riddle]

Cadsift web site. Also Cadsoft tech support was very good when I called
them.
Its noted that it does not seem intuitive, but once you get around, then
its a great package for the money.
I've been using the Dos version for some time now, with my XP upgrade I'll
be upgrading eagle as well.

Happy Holidays!

 

[Walter Harley]

I've been using the Dos version for some time now, with my XP upgrade I'll
be upgrading eagle as well.

You'll want to carefully read the notices about setting 'vector fonts'. The
Windows version has some serious resource leaks, that can quickly bring XP
to its knees.

(It is still a good program for the money, but gee I wish the vendor of the
GUI library they use would fix their bugs.)

 

[Peter Lowrie]

Good heavens. Well, it may be intuitive, but my company will have to be an
awful lot more profitable before I can find out for myself, at those

prices.

Here's my 2c worth: the software by pulsonix.com is not complied for
Linux...Drat.

 

[Chaos Master]

In reply to a radio transmission from Peter Lowrie([email protected]) ,
located at Mars:

Here's my 2c worth: the software by pulsonix.com is not complied for
Linux...Drat.

For Linux you have gEDA which is a good program.

 

[Terry]

Chaos Master threw some tea leaves on the floor

In reply to a radio transmission from Peter Lowrie([email protected]) ,
located at Mars:


For Linux you have gEDA which is a good program.

gEDA includes gschem which is an excellent GUI schematic capture
program. Gschem includes gnetlist which outputs many netlist types
including one for PCB, so that schematics produced by gschem may be
turned into pcbs using PCB with rubberbanding or autorouting.

More info on gEDA on my site:-
http://milkstone.d2.net.au/software/geda.html

And PCB:-
http://milkstone.d2.net.au/software/pcb.html

 

[Ian Bell]

Chaos Master threw some tea leaves on the floor


gEDA includes gschem which is an excellent GUI schematic capture
program. Gschem includes gnetlist which outputs many netlist types
including one for PCB, so that schematics produced by gschem may be
turned into pcbs using PCB with rubberbanding or autorouting.

I would love to use gEDA but have never been able to get it to work.
Mandrake 9.1 rpms install OK but gschem just seg faults - no error message.

Ian

 

[Bill Sloman]

I would love to use gEDA but have never been able to get it to work.
Mandrake 9.1 rpms install OK but gschem just seg faults - no error message.

I got it to instal under Mandrake 9.0 without too much difficulty - I
had to find a handful of programs to satisfy the dependencies but it
was pretty painless.

 

[Ian Bell]

I got it to instal under Mandrake 9.0 without too much difficulty - I
had to find a handful of programs to satisfy the dependencies but it
was pretty painless.

Did you use binary rpms or source code? Can you remember what additional
programs were required to satisfy dependencies?

Ian#

 

[Bill Sloman]

Did you use binary rpms or source code? Can you remember what additional
programs were required to satisfy dependencies?

I downloaded the source code under vcs (or whatever the version
control package is called) which gave me binary rpms, which I didn't
entirely understand - I think I posted what went wrong on the geda
mailing list - but I got them to compile within an hour so. I think I
wrote down the names of the extra programs I had to install, but my
notes are in Nijmegen and I'm in Sydney. I'll post the details next
week, after I get home, if they are worth posting.

 

[Terry]

Bill Sloman threw some tea leaves on the floor

Gschem shouldn't segfault, something sounds badly broken in the RPM
packages.
http://www.geda.seul.org/ is the home page and all dependencies are
listed there.

Personally I think that RPMS are very problematic, but then I use
Debian, or Gentoo etc.

[...]

 

[Ian Bell]

Bill Sloman threw some tea leaves on the floor

Gschem shouldn't segfault, something sounds badly broken in the RPM
packages.
http://www.geda.seul.org/ is the home page and all dependencies are
listed there.

Personally I think that RPMS are very problematic, but then I use
Debian, or Gentoo etc.

[...]

Yes, I have visited the home page several times in the past, downloaded it
all and never had success at installing it. I have few problems with rpms
in general and have compiled a lot of stuff too. geda is possibly the one I
have struggled with longest and I would dearly like a GUI schematic capture
and simuilation prog under linux. I found oregano which i liked a lot but
it was abandoned at an early stage. Even downloaded the source with the
idea of dveleoping it further but the code was insufficiently commented.

Ian

 

[Terry]

Ian Bell threw some tea leaves on the floor

Bill Sloman threw some tea leaves on the floor

Bill Sloman wrote:

Terry wrote:

Chaos Master threw some tea leaves on the floor
and this is what they wrote:

In reply to a radio transmission from Peter
Lowrie([email protected]) , located at Mars:

Here's my 2c worth: the software by pulsonix.com is not complied
for Linux...Drat.

For Linux you have gEDA which is a good program.

gEDA includes gschem which is an excellent GUI schematic capture
program. Gschem includes gnetlist which outputs many netlist types
including one for PCB, so that schematics produced by gschem may be
turned into pcbs using PCB with rubberbanding or autorouting.


I would love to use gEDA but have never been able to get it to work.
Mandrake 9.1 rpms install OK but gschem just seg faults - no error
message.

I got it to instal under Mandrake 9.0 without too much difficulty - I
had to find a handful of programs to satisfy the dependencies but it
was pretty painless.


Did you use binary rpms or source code? Can you remember what
additional programs were required to satisfy dependencies?

Gschem shouldn't segfault, something sounds badly broken in the RPM
packages.
http://www.geda.seul.org/ is the home page and all dependencies are
listed there.

Personally I think that RPMS are very problematic, but then I use
Debian, or Gentoo etc.

[...]

Yes, I have visited the home page several times in the past, downloaded it
all and never had success at installing it. I have few problems with rpms
in general and have compiled a lot of stuff too. geda is possibly the one I
have struggled with longest and I would dearly like a GUI schematic capture
and simuilation prog under linux.

I'm sorry to hear of your problems there Ian, you could email me the
errors you're getting if you like, and I'll try and find out whats
wrong ?

My email address is on my web page.

I found oregano which i liked a lot but
it was abandoned at an early stage. Even downloaded the source with the
idea of dveleoping it further but the code was insufficiently commented.

Yes, Oregano has long been without development, but honestly gEDA is
the place to look as it's under very active development. I think
Gschem even has five different BOM generation utilities now!

TclSpice works nicely from the Gschem generated spice netlist, and PCB
works well with the Gschem PCB netlist.

 

[Ian Bell]

Ian Bell threw some tea leaves on the floor

Bill Sloman threw some tea leaves on the floor
and this is what they wrote:

Bill Sloman wrote:

Terry wrote:

Chaos Master threw some tea leaves on the floor
and this is what they wrote:

In reply to a radio transmission from Peter
Lowrie([email protected]) , located at Mars:

Here's my 2c worth: the software by pulsonix.com is not
complied for Linux...Drat.

For Linux you have gEDA which is a good program.

gEDA includes gschem which is an excellent GUI schematic capture
program. Gschem includes gnetlist which outputs many netlist
types including one for PCB, so that schematics produced by
gschem may be turned into pcbs using PCB with rubberbanding or
autorouting.


I would love to use gEDA but have never been able to get it to
work. Mandrake 9.1 rpms install OK but gschem just seg faults - no
error message.

I got it to instal under Mandrake 9.0 without too much difficulty -
I had to find a handful of programs to satisfy the dependencies but
it was pretty painless.


Did you use binary rpms or source code? Can you remember what
additional programs were required to satisfy dependencies?

Gschem shouldn't segfault, something sounds badly broken in the RPM
packages.
http://www.geda.seul.org/ is the home page and all dependencies are
listed there.

Personally I think that RPMS are very problematic, but then I use
Debian, or Gentoo etc.

[...]

Yes, I have visited the home page several times in the past, downloaded
it
all and never had success at installing it. I have few problems with
rpms in general and have compiled a lot of stuff too. geda is possibly
the one I have struggled with longest and I would dearly like a GUI
schematic capture and simuilation prog under linux.

I'm sorry to hear of your problems there Ian, you could email me the
errors you're getting if you like, and I'll try and find out whats
wrong ?

It is very simple really. I downloaded and successfully installed the
Mandrake 9.1 rpm for geda, no errors. When I run gschem from a console it
seg faults. No error messages other than the seg fault itself.

Ian