Schematic/PCB Design for Linux?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday February 24, 2006 @10:30AM from the for-future-hardware-manufacturers dept.

VanessaDannenberg asks: "Occasionally, I have been known to design the occasional circuit board. I've been using Eagle, but with the board size limit of 3x4 inches in the free version, and a $400 price tag to exceed this limit, it is time to consider a Free Open Source Software alternative. Not being a Linux programmer myself, I have checked into and ruled out gEDA, KiCAD, Electric, XCircuit, and a host of others as being too incomplete to replace Eagle. My requirements are pretty basic: Draw a schematic, make a board out of it, edit and autoroute it, export to Gerber, and do it all natively within Linux. So, with this in mind, what suggestions do you folks have?"

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PCB123 by grexin · 2006-02-24 11:21 · Score: 1, Offtopic

The only program I have found that satisfies your requirements (except the linux part) is PCB123 (PCB123.com)

It looks like someone is trying to get it to work under Wine:

http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-bugs/2004/06/ 0125.html

Since this bug is so old maybe it has been fixed by now.

Of course the downside of PCB123 is that you don't get a Gerber file, you are required to use the PCB123 board fabrication services. I personally think they are pretty good so don't mind being tied to one vendor.