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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 23:37:40 +0200
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Bert Timmerman wrote:

> While I was typing the former email ...
> 
> I don't use KiCad, nor Eagle, nor other monolithic applications,
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^
For the record, kicad uses completely separate applications for schematic 
capture (eeschema), layout (pcbnew) and view (gerview). All of them can be 
used independently. Kicad users even explicitely export a netlist from 
eeschema. Just like geda's xgsch2pcb there is a GUI called "kicad" which 
manages projects and provides buttons to start the various components of 
the suite. 

Seen from this angle, there does not seem use a fundamentally different 
approach. It just happens that using the kicad project manager is the 
work-flow developers endorse as opposed to xgsch2pcb which sort of froze 
many years ago at proof-of-principle stage. Consequently the project 
manager is much more feature complete than xgsch2pcb and feels like the 
natural way to use kicad.


> You probably "gain" a "push-and-shove router" in KiCad, so I was told at
> FOSDEM-2015 (1) and FOSDEM-2016 (2).
> 
> And recently integration with ngspice was announced ... YMMV

There is a nice 3D rendition, too.

The switch from geda to kicad adds the ability to have blind and buried 
vias in your layouts. This allows you to deal more easily with 
BGAs and densely populated boards. 

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