Re: freeware for schematic to pcb?




"Greg Waterston" <gregw@xxxxxxxx> writes:
I would like to be able to take a schematic- which can be already be
in jpg format from the web or drawn with a program if necessary- and
have it converted into a pcb layout. The layout can either be
Vectorboard or standard pcb. Is there any freeware that will do
this?

Magically? No. Packages like gEDA or Kicad do provide the tools you
need to do it yourself, though - a schematic capture tool to edit the
schematic, and a pcb layout tool to design the board.

Also, gEDA's PCB can take a manually-edited netlist and manually added
parts from the core library, and let you design a board without
needing to re-capture the schematics, if the circuit is simple enough.
.



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