[sdiy] Pulsonix PCB design software

[Gordonjcp]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 01:34:51AM -0700, matt holland wrote:
> i've been using altium daily for about two years. it took about 6 months to
> unlearn orcad/allegro. i now simultaneously hate altium and can't imagine
> using anything else. anyone try this pulsonix (to return to the original
> subject) from an altium pov?
> 
> i dream of rolling my own some day but i'm not a practicing software dev
> and something about the constant mention of cern employees working on kicad
> makes me think this must be an especially difficult and complicated
> application.

It's actually really easy to use, and for you probably easier than most
because:

1) you've climbed the learning curve of trying to learn how to lay PCBs
and schematics out "visually" - ie. the art rather than the mechanics

2) you've climbed the learning curve of learning the mechanics of not
one but two CAD packages.

Where a lot of people struggle is that it's hard to learn how to lay out
a schematic never mind a PCB, and when you're struggling with the actual
application because it's a bit "designed by engineers" you've got two
steep hills to climb at the same time.

If you want to hack on Kicad, the codebase is pretty clean and the devs
are a friendly bunch.

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Gordonjcp MM0YEQ