On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Giles Honeycutt wrote:

> Peter,
> I downloaded KiCad, I am looking it over.  What have been the board =

> house response to the Gerber output from KiCad?
> I am wondering if others are using it on the PicList?
> =

> Also, in the demo, I noticed the floods look very rough.  Is that a =

> normal attribute of this product, no diagonal lines on the floods?
> =

> Best regards,
> Giles


Giles,

I've had boards produced with batchpcb without any problems. Assuming other=
 board houses would be okay with KiCads output too.

Later (SVN) versions of KiCad has polygon fills, so it looks a lot tidier, =
downside is of course that there is a really annoying comma/period decimal =
separator bug in the SVN version for windows. Bug isn't there on linux thou=
gh...

As for KiCad itself, I find it a LOT easier to use than Eagle :) (Just my 2=
 =F8re though...)

regards,
=D8yvind
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