[sdiy] Pulsonix PCB design software

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I've been using schematic capture and PCB layout soft for over 30 years
now.
Thing like Orcad, Ultiboard or the Altium stuff have always be quite
expensive.
Often wondered why the user interface and integration of the sub programs
was as bad as they where, considering the cost of the software.
And then there are the bugs...

In the past I spent serious money on Ultiboard, only to find that under new
ownership the prices went up a factor 20, and my investment was worthless.
Switched to open source (Kicad) and found a program that was more or less
equal to the big bug (pun intended) systems.

For me projects like gEDM and Kicad are a beacon of hope in a landscape
dominated by greed.

Cheers Theo

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:18 AM, <sleepy_dog at gmx.de> wrote:

> Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>
> Now, if I was trying to be all annoying about it, that’s one of those
>> things that could be described as “user error”, but really it’s just down
>> to the different ways and styles that these different packages use, and
>> that people start to assume are “standard”. They’re not. There is no
>> “standard”. It might be nice if there was, but it’s probably too
>> complicated a problem for a single solution to ever make sense.
>>
>
> Well, there are defacto standards, even if no IEEE number. Which perhaps
> makes them less clearly identifyable.
> Especially in all the little things about UI mechanics shared across
> different domains. Probably more fluid than formal standards. But emerging
> as tendencies.
> I do use more than one program. And if I encounter one thing again, again,
> and again... it looks like a standard to me.
> Like the zoom thing.
> Could be the case, though, that there is e.g. a long existing "EE software
> sub culture" that I'm not a part of because SDIY is one hobby of mine for
> only a couple years now, in a kind of on-off relationship. So my perception
> could be different.
>
> Probably greater difference across different OSes. "No standards" seems to
> be fitting for the wilderness that is the Linux sphere.
>
>
> Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>
>> One (unfortunate) side-effect of the Diptrace way of doing this is that
>> you have to keep an eye on which way up you have the op-amps. I once
>> screwed up a PCB layout by rearranging op-amps like this, but then failing
>> to notice that I’d vertically flipped some of them (to get +ve and -ve
>> input more convenient for the schematic). So I wired the right op-amps in
>> the right places, but got completely the wrong wires connected up. Didn’t
>> notice until the prototype PCB utterly failed to do what it was supposed
>> to. I kicked myself for that one.
>>
>
> That's nothing. Try creating a component where you don't notice for a
> while you mixed up pins, then use that in several schematics.
> Now we're talking!
>
>
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