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As far as I can tell kicad is having the same issue with eeschema that
geda has with PCB

http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/md_Documentation_development_road-map.html
look for "Coherent SCHEMATIC Object"

Actually looking at that list geda kind of feels like it is in many
ways ahead of them.


On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Sabin Iacob (iacobs AT m0n5t3r DOT info) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On 07/01/2015 10:38 PM, John Doty wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
>>
>>> For what its worth, I fell that the EDA suites to compare to is not $$$
>>> but kicad.
>> Kicad is complementary to gEDA in a way similar to OpenOffice versus Latex. Integrated tool versus toolkit. Both have their place.
>>
>>
>
>
> I'm pretty sure he was comparing on a per-component basis; for instance,
> even if I find Kicad's PCB thing unusable, it has some neat things I'd
> love to see in pcb (drag traces around and they stay connected _and_
> keep their angles, push/shove traces, helpers for length matching, (not
> sure about) bus/multiple trace routing, nets displayed if the zoom level
> is high enough... [1]).
>
> I think the Kicad gschem equivalent is roughly similar from a basic user
> point of view - the differences were mostly cosmetic last time I tried
> to use it (1-2 years ago).
>
>
> [1] this is what I've been able to gather from YouTube videos - I'm
> never able to find anything in the actual pcbnew, I just keep it
> installed because I might have to open something created with it
> sometimes; I do start it every few months only to promptly get lost and
> kill it with fire.
>
>



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