[sdiy] Schematics Software

[Gordonjcp]

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 12:45:14PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote:
> On 2017-05-19 20:54 +0100, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> 
> > That's exactly the sort of stuff I was thinking about. I
> > didn't like the diode symbol in DipTrace, so I drew another
> > one (filled in) and used it to replace the standard one. You
> > could replace a box with a zigzag in kicad for sure, if you
> > wanted to.
> > 
> > With a little bit of mucking about you can get the schematics
> > looking how you want.
> 
> Right. When I tried Kicad a few years ago, the most obvious
> annoyance was that not only the standard symbol library was a
> mess, but hardly anything looked the way I thought it should.

That was one of the things that put me off Eagle, apart from the vendor lock-in - it didn't come with any useful symbols and it was an utter ballache to make your own.

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