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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:11:21 -0700
From: "Girvin R. Herr" <girvin DOT herr AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf (Was gEDA/PCBs diversity, Was:
 Pin hole size)
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John Doty wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Vaclav Peroutka wrote:
>
>   
>> Dear John, 
>>
>>     
>>> I suggest that those who propose a change to gEDA consider whether the 
>>>       
>> change would be beneficial if pcb did not exist.
>>
>> if there is no PCB in gEDA, probably nobody would use gschem alone.
>>     
>
> Hikyuu:Source jpd$ gnetlist -g help
> List of available backends:
>
> allegro                  bae                      bom                      
> bom2                     calay                    cascade                  
> devel                    drc                      drc2                     
> eagle                    futurenet2               geda                     
> gossip                   gsch2pcb                 liquidpcb                
> mathematica              maxascii                 osmond                   
> pads                     partslist-common         partslist1               
> partslist2               partslist3               PCB                      
> pcbfwd                   pcbpins                  protelII                 
> redac                    spice-noqsi              spice-sdb                
> spice                    switcap                  systemc                  
> tango                    vams                     verilog                  
> vhdl                     vipec                    
>
> Look at all the things you can do with gschem's outputs that are not pcb!
>
> I do schematic design. My customers' layout people do not use pcb. Right now, my major design project is VLSI (under construction at https://github.com/noqsi/VideoASIC), which pcb *cannot* lay out.
>
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
>
>   
Yes, and to put in my 2-cents on the value of gschem alone, I use it to 
generate documentation for old and new projects for posterity and 
configuration control.  Most of these projects do not contain custom 
printed circuit boards.  I even use gschem to generate mechanical 
drawings of chassis and custom parts for these projects, at least until 
a mature open source 2D mechanical CAD program that runs under *nix 
comes along.  I have hundreds of gschem drawings and so far, zero PCB 
drawings. 
Girvin Herr