pcb-rnd & cschem

[ScribblesOnNapkins]

Hi I am officially requesting a child board in "General PCB/EDA/CAD Discussions"  for pcb-rnd and it's sister project cschem (EDA).

[donotdespisethesnake]

Why don't you set up your own forum? Then you won't need to go spamming other unrelated forums all the time.

[hermit]

Well, the mods don't read every post so this probably isn't the best way to ask.  I believe these are all mods.  You might try a PM.
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[ebastler]

Hi I am officially requesting a child board in "General PCB/EDA/CAD Discussions"  for pcb-rnd and it's sister project cschem (EDA).

What's wrong with using the gEDA child board, as you have done in the past? I understand that pcb-rnd is a branch of gEDA. And the gEDA board is the one with the smallest number of posts in the PCB/CAD section, so I'm not sure why another board would need to be spun off?

[ScribblesOnNapkins]

hermit thanks.

ebastler At this point over 2/3 of our code is different from the mainline of pcb and we are starting our own tool to replace geda. At the start of that process we most likely won't be compatible with gEDA in terms of schematic or symbol format. Rather than spam their communications channels with our stuff we want to do have our own space.

donotdespisethesnake I have no idea what your problem is.

[ebastler]

Hmm... Looking at the response times in this thread (8 days for a first response, and then another 10 days before the OP returned), I am not sure how vibrant that pcb-rnd child board would be.

[nctnico]

hermit thanks.

ebastler At this point over 2/3 of our code is different from the mainline of pcb and we are starting our own tool to replace geda. At the start of that process we most likely won't be compatible with gEDA in terms of schematic or symbol format. Rather than spam their communications channels with our stuff we want to do have our own space.

If you are going to create your own schematics software then please don't make the mistake by making a symbol the center of a component! That is completely wrong. What would be ideal is to have the components in a database (sqlite for example) and each component record connects a symbol with a footprint, a value, manufacturer part number, manufacturer, etc. Then that component record can easely be extended to have an internal part number, order code, etc. Look for Orcad Capture CIS videos for further details. IMHO one of the biggest problems with the low end CAD packages is that you have to create a bill-of-materials by hand (which is prone to errors) because the component management system has been setup wrong. If you have the components in a database it is very easy to create a BOM with the right part number, order codes with one mouse click.