On Monday 12 April 2004 10:02 pm, Roy J. Gromlich scribbled:
> You are correct that you COULD merge multiple PCBs using a
> Gerber editor - there are several which would do the job.  The
> problem is that a GOOD Gerber editor costs about half as much
> as the full Eagle Pro version, so you would have to decide if the
> extra time and potential problems are worth the price difference.

How about this...
   http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python/gerbmerge/


> Myself, I really hope to get enough work to justify purchasing the
> full package. ...

That'll be some time away for me.


> Just a background, I have many years of experience
> with the PADS Power-Logic and Power-PCB packages ( and
> Blaze Router).  Eagle doesn't do everything that PADs does, but
> it is a LOT cheaper.  And, contrary to what some have said, the
> user interface is no more arcane than that of PADS - which is,
> quite frankly, user hostile.  (At least this user)  I actually found
> Eagle easier to use in a lot of ways.

At this point, Eagle meets and/or exceeds what I need.  It's just a prici=
ng=20
issue for me.

I've used Mentor in the past (like the 17th century, when I was in colleg=
e) on=20
Apollo workstations, and found it very nice.  But at that time, I did mos=
tly=20
schematic capture and logic-circuit simulation.  Can't remember seeing an=
y=20
PIC libraries though. :-)

Cheers,
-Neil.,

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