??? 01/26/07 07:24 Read: times |
#131533 - Do yourself a favor ... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Avoid bEAGLE at all cost! It's an adequate editor autorouter, but absolutely the worst schematic package I've ever encountered. It allows no schematic import, so it probably won't be a candidate for you anyway, but it won't export, prints very badly, uses ugly fonts which you can't edit, and, worst of all, requires a device-specific PCB footprint be entered for EVERY schematic symbol. What's worse, you can't easily change them.
If you search Yahoo, they have an old-DOS OrCAD library that you can get from their special interest group. That old Old OLD software is the very best schematic capture package I've ever encountered, and I've had to use LOTS of 'em. The old DOS OrCAD is free if you find it, and it incluces the schematic package, a digital simulator, modeling tool, and a pretty good PCB editor/autorouter. It has a small number, compared to the Windows stuff, libraries that are easy to peruse in order to find what you need, and once the libraries are instantiated, the components pop up in milliseconds. It makes library member creation easy, it makes schematic creation VERY fast, at least 10x as fast as the fastest high-cost Windows software I've seen, yes, Including ALTIUM, CADENCE and MENTOR, each of which I've been forced at one time or another to endure. RE |