John,
gEDA is not as well supported as kicad, and is lagging in term of developme=
nt.
Kicad has improved drastically in the last couple of years with the sponsor=
ship of SoftPLC and CERN on top of the great team that started it. It has s=
upport for Linux(native), windows and OS X.
Your comments about it are mostly obsolete.
It can import the whole Eagle library.

Jean-Paul
AC9GH




On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:17 PM, John J. McDonough <mcd@is-sixsigma.com> wrote:

> I'm really liking pcb, from the gEDA suite.
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> It is one of a suite of tools which cover schematic capture, simulation,
> PCB layout and BOM generation.  It is totally free and open source, and
> because it is open source, it is relatively easy to create your own
> symbols and footprints, although there is a fairly extensive library.
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> kicad does have the really cool feature of generating a 3D view of your
> board, but I find it clumsier than pcb, and it has fewer provided
> components.
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> --McD
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> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 19:17 -0600, NOPE9 YES wrote:
>> I may have to layout a PCB with 10 layers , 3 users , 30 pages of schema=
tics.  From what I have learned from the PIClist, I would favour Eagle.  Do=
es anyone have other suggestions ?  Cost of the tool is a consideration.  B=
ut not if the tool wastes developer time.
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>> Best
>> Gus in Denver
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