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Lilith the issue is not a fight over 2D vs 3D drawing. The issue is
over how the 2D drawing is handled in code. The source code to PCB is
kind of troublesome to add onto.

I am grateful to it's authors but I must acknowledge that it needs
some added care.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Lilith Bryant (dark141 AT gmail DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On 2015-07-01 07:10:41 AM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>   I'm sorry, but you're wrong.  In my case, I am an electronics
>> hobbyist, but I've also been a commercial designer for about 25 years.
>> I'm betting I'm not the only professional designer here.
>>
>
> Raises my hand as another professional designer.
>
> Nothing in orbit (yet!),  but I do have hundreds of instances
> of my 2000+ rat designs running in factories around the globe.
>
> I *love* the fact that PCB is at it's core a 2D drawing program.  KISS.
>
> I particularly *love* that lines aren't married to nets.  Every other
> layout program I've tried (including some $$$) make a royal hash of that.
> PCB doesn't tie itself up in knots.
>
> There's a few annoyances in PCB that I'll getting around to fixing one
> day, but all and all,  it's my pick over even the high $$$ systems.
>



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