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John Doty : In the name of a more open workflow I was advocating PCB
changing/adding TSV as an accepted input format for the other
attributes I was suggesting. The idea being to break out of the
workflow issues you see in PCB.



On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 10:35 +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
>> it would be nice if I could just draw the schematics, choose
>> footprints for it, route the PCB, and send the Gerber files to the
>> fab.
>
> Sure. I think that is the main reason that so many people (at least here
> in Germany) are using Eagle. Eagle is not very powerful, not very easy
> to use or beautiful, but has a large collection of trustful symbols and
> footprint.
>
> For FOSS EDA situation is not that good. Some people may create some
> symbols or footprints and maybe make them public available, but do not
> care much about systematically naming or quality. There are a few
> exceptions of course, Mr Luciano (name may be misspelled) tried to
> create high quality PCB footprints, and some people at gedasymbols tried
> it also. I am not sure if situation is really better for KiCAD. And
> converters from commercial products like Eagle? I do not think that is
> really legal and that commercial companies will like that.
>



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