Re: PCB Design Software for $0.00
From: DJ Delorie (dj_at_delorie.com)
Date: 07/29/04
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Date: 29 Jul 2004 13:40:34 -0400
Brane2 <brane2@anonymous.com> writes:
> Both packages show age and lack of programming knowledge but they make
> it up with their overall simplicity and utility.
>
> PCB is not really "fully featured", since it lacks real poligon
> pour. To its credit, it has simplified implementation, which is much
> faster and should be adequate for 90% of needs.
What version of pcb did you play with? We've been adding lots of
stuff to it lately. I know of at least one board done with polygon
pour that I had to fix a bug for; there's now a key to clear-poly all
selected traces before adding the overlay poly. There was also a
recent bugfix for poly clears when multiple virtual layers were mapped
to one physical layer.
And if you do find a bug in pcb, please PLEASE report the bug to the
bug tracking page on sourceforge. We've been doing pretty well at
keeping up with the bug reports and fixing them, but if you don't
report them we can't do anything! There's a spot for feature
requests, too.
FYI I recently added an option to pcb to display a photograph as the
board background, which is something asked for here before. You can
scan a board from a magazine, do a little processing in some paint
program (careful cropping and color fading is about all), and use it
as a template to create your board.
We also have user-definable menus, sub-mil accuracy, trace optimizers,
and a few other goodies.
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