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On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 10:35 +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> it would be nice if I could just draw the schematics, choose
> footprints for it, route the PCB, and send the Gerber files to the
> fab.

Sure. I think that is the main reason that so many people (at least here
in Germany) are using Eagle. Eagle is not very powerful, not very easy
to use or beautiful, but has a large collection of trustful symbols and
footprint.

For FOSS EDA situation is not that good. Some people may create some
symbols or footprints and maybe make them public available, but do not
care much about systematically naming or quality. There are a few
exceptions of course, Mr Luciano (name may be misspelled) tried to
create high quality PCB footprints, and some people at gedasymbols tried
it also. I am not sure if situation is really better for KiCAD. And
converters from commercial products like Eagle? I do not think that is
really legal and that commercial companies will like that.