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[John Devereux <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Devereux <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Collin Anderson <metacollin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>

[...]

>
> Hi Collin
>
> Interesting... I gave kicad a good try over the new year hoping to
> switch to it (for commercial use). It was precisely the footprint
> creation workflow that I could not get to be usable for me. It was too
> hard to create accurate footprints with the legends I wanted (following
> the component outline basically, with gaps to avoid pads). Just moving
> the cursor accurately (e.g. to typed-in coordinates), precisely visiting
> a sequence of points (to define the shape) - this seemed almost
> impossible.

(replying to myself)

And that was all rather negative. I should have added that on the other
hand many of the features are very nice, and the new CERN stuff is
awesome. It seems to be growing in all the right directions, congrats to
the developers.


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John Devereux