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On Dec 14, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Britton Kerin wrote:

> It was the combination of figuring out which attributes had to
> be set in gschem, how symbols and footprints connected together, and how
> the whole arrangement was propagated into pcb that was painful.

Well, this is another peculiarity. I've exported gschem projects, some very large, to customers who use several different layout programs, but not pcb. Nobody has complained of any serious trouble importing the netlists. For printed circuit projects, I use the gEDA footprint conventions where applicable (http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:pcb_footprint_naming_conventions).

But pcb seems to have a more difficult interface. You can't simply use gnetlist to export designs to it, it needs extra help. and footprint confusion seems to be a perennial problem.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
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