gEDA (GPL'ed Electronic Design) In EE Times

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 14, 2004 @12:12PM from the beyond-world-domination dept.

Stuart Brorson writes "At long last, today's EE Times published an article about the gEDA project. The gEDA project has developed a mature, GPL'd, Linux-based suite of tools useful for electronic design. Using the gEDA tools, you can take a circuit design from schematic capture, through simulation, to PC board layout and fab. Some example PCBs done using gEDA include the Darrell Harmon's single board computer, and the 'free hardware' Ronja Project. Happily, the advantages of open-source for electronics design were well presented in the article. It's good to see that gEDA is getting some well-deserved press for the excellent work which has been going on from over six years now!"

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Re:gEDA is still lacking a PCB editor... by dj.delorie · 2004-12-14 13:34 · Score: 5, Informative

PCB seems to be powerful, but i simply cannot get accostumed to it's interface.

As one of the few people actively working on PCB, I can only say this: If you don't tell us what you don't like, we can't make it better. As with all open software, YOU the user are an important part of the development process, even if all you do is [constructively] complain.
Recently, I added user-customizable menus. Have you tried changing the UI to do what YOU want? That's why I added it.