Mail Archives: geda-user/2016/07/29/17:39:45
Bert Timmerman wrote:
> While I was typing the former email ...
>
> I don't use KiCad, nor Eagle, nor other monolithic applications,
^^^^^^^^^^
For the record, kicad uses completely separate applications for schematic
capture (eeschema), layout (pcbnew) and view (gerview). All of them can be
used independently. Kicad users even explicitely export a netlist from
eeschema. Just like geda's xgsch2pcb there is a GUI called "kicad" which
manages projects and provides buttons to start the various components of
the suite.
Seen from this angle, there does not seem use a fundamentally different
approach. It just happens that using the kicad project manager is the
work-flow developers endorse as opposed to xgsch2pcb which sort of froze
many years ago at proof-of-principle stage. Consequently the project
manager is much more feature complete than xgsch2pcb and feels like the
natural way to use kicad.
> You probably "gain" a "push-and-shove router" in KiCad, so I was told at
> FOSDEM-2015 (1) and FOSDEM-2016 (2).
>
> And recently integration with ngspice was announced ... YMMV
There is a nice 3D rendition, too.
The switch from geda to kicad adds the ability to have blind and buried
vias in your layouts. This allows you to deal more easily with
BGAs and densely populated boards.
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