[sdiy] Schematics Software

[Quincas Moreira]

Wow, this is great you guys, thanks so much.
Honestly, I haven't advanced far enough in the diptrace learning curve to
want to stick to it if there are better options available. I'm now
considering all the options you all have listed and will investigate them
not only for the print quality schematics I need but also as PCB design
software in general.
Great sunday to all!

Q

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 4:16 AM, <rsdio at audiobanshee.com> wrote:

> All of those things can be changed. Once I set my defaults colors for
> layout, I'm actually surprised when I see someone else using the original
> defaults. For some of my layouts, Eagle even shows the OSHPark purple.
>
> It is a bit of a hassle to edit the default pin names when Eagle keeps
> suggesting P$1, etc.
>
> As for the power pins in separate symbols, that's sometimes good and
> sometimes bad. For a CPU, it's typically better to have the power pins in a
> main symbol. But there's generally only one CPU in a chip.
>
> However, for dual and quad op-amps, the circuit is much more manageable if
> the power pins are not tied to a specific op-amp, but are separate. This
> allows you so swap op-amps to make routing easier, since they're all
> equivalent. Other circuit software doesn't have this feature, and then your
> schematic has explicit power pins on one out of four or one out of two
> op-amps, making it painstaking to change if you need to swap op-amps for
> layout reasons. I recently designed an 8-channel sample-and-hold circuit,
> only to find out that I got the order of the op-amps wrong in my quads.
> Eagle made it easy to juggle things with one or two clicks and no real
> schematic editing to speak of.
>
> This one feature means that when I build a Device in Eagle that has
> multiple interchangeable parts inside a single chip, I always create the
> power pins as a separate symbol.
>
> Brian Willoughby
> Sound Consulting
>
>
> On May 20, 2017, at 9:38 PM, matt holland <matt at mattholland.org> wrote:
> > I also really dislike it's system of storing power pins in separate
> symbols and the weird generic net and pin names with $ signs everywhere.
> Horrible default colors as well.
>
>
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Quincas Moreira
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