Re: Kicad

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:09:46 -0600
Message-Id: <EC05F4B7-F382-403C-85F3-8257CD657235_at_wfmh.org.pl>
It's not the same as EAGLE but I can confirm that it's acceptable now (it was one of the deal breakers for me too). You no linger have to go through export/import procedure. Just push a key and confirm. Fair enough for me. 

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> On 23 Jan 2020, at 10:12, André Fachat <afachat_at_gmx.de> wrote:
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> Am 23. Januar 2020 17:06:45 schrieb Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>:
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>> Den Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:39:47 -0500 skrev Ethan Dicks
>> <ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com>:
>>> What a timely message.  I too looked at KiCAD a few years ago and
>>> decided it wasn't up to the task (yet), but I was just setting up a
>>> new-to-me Linux laptop and discovered that the license for new
>>> versions of EagleCAD require a subscription and the old versions that
>>> do not (i.e. 7.70 and older) are not new enough to run on recent
>>> versions of Linux (not sufficiently backwards-compatible with
>>> up-to-date system libraries).
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>> Side-track-tip: As long as your current kernel is compatible with the
>> libraries in an old distribution, you can run an older distribution in
>> a chroot. (You might also be able to install older versions of the
>> system libraries on a current distribution).
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> I actually run Eagle in a VM with an older Linux in it...
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> How is forward and backward annotation now in kicad? That's my Eagle killer
> feature as it is so simple there.
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> André
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Received on 2020-05-30 00:25:36

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