Any of you have any suggestions for free and open source linux software for PCB CAD in general and/or AOI (automated optical inspection) CAD in particular? kiCAD maybe?
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I have freecad installed but I have yet to use it. So this comment is useless.
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It's only something I read about but KiCAD is the one mentioned most but there is also http://geda-project.org/
interested in AOI, found this:
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I used kicad last year to work on a simple mic preamp pcb.
Cannot compare it to other software, last time i did any serious pcb layout (over 30yrs ago) was using lightbox, transfers and marker pens.
I only wanted a simple pcb layout mask. Would have liked to skip the initial steps of creating schematics and selecting components, but made sense when i got to the layout process and it started to come together.
In addition to text reference/online searches, I found lots of helpful youtube content. The windows version was covered well in a number of videos on eevblog - that would give you opinion from someone who regularly used other pcb cad software.
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wine and sketchup.
I have LibreCAD installed but I have yet to use it. So this comment is useless.
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SketchUp you say? Please elaborate. High degree of accuracy?
Great above and beyond reply.
play on linux has a good wine config for sketch up. just down load the windows exe thten run with play on linux. in my use it was stable apart from a couple of freezes it worked fine. the linux cad software is very limited in my very limited experience
In my limited experience, I concur. 