Re: What schematic drawing tool do you use ?

Hello David,

Are there any lists of the design tools it interfaces with? In particular, one of the biggest obstacles to changing toolsets is incompatibility of file formats. Apart from netlists (with are easy to work with), the only standard formats are output formats like pdf and gerber. If gEDA has tools for converting back and forth between different binary formats, then I'd love to hear about it.


EDA tools mostly do not interface beyond the netlist format. IMHO this whole EDIF effort was a joke, many EDA companies seem unwilling to cooperate. So if they don't release their 'proprietary' formats those that want to cooperate cannot do so.

Incompatibility was my biggest obstacle when I switched to Cadsoft Eagle. But to me the price/performance ratio was much better than the competition and I took the plunge.

Regards, Joerg

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