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01/26/07 07:24
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#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.

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List of 37 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Schematic Programs            01/01/70 00:00      
   Just because that's how it was done...            01/01/70 00:00      
      Conversion needs to be done sometime..            01/01/70 00:00      
         Do yourself a favor ...            01/01/70 00:00      
            Talk the talk. Walk the walk?            01/01/70 00:00      
               What, exactly, is it that you want, Charles?            01/01/70 00:00      
            "Target" is awesome!            01/01/70 00:00      
               Target has it's limitations            01/01/70 00:00      
                  bugs are OK if the software's free?            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Subjectively            01/01/70 00:00      
   Free CAD Software            01/01/70 00:00      
      There's no such thing as a free lunch.            01/01/70 00:00      
      Taken a look            01/01/70 00:00      
      No more than a toy for amateurs            01/01/70 00:00      
   If you're paying an engineer's salary..            01/01/70 00:00      
      The problem with OrCAD CAPTURE            01/01/70 00:00      
         Disagree            01/01/70 00:00      
            It depends what's used for comparison.            01/01/70 00:00      
               re "library find"            01/01/70 00:00      
                  That's true ... sadly ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     that would make it quite a list            01/01/70 00:00      
                        That might work in some cases, but ...            01/01/70 00:00      
   the most important issue in this situation is            01/01/70 00:00      
   cheap schematic capture            01/01/70 00:00      
   ORCAD and why            01/01/70 00:00      
      Yes, it's true, it has become a standard            01/01/70 00:00      
         Cheapest way there is....            01/01/70 00:00      
            cheapest?            01/01/70 00:00      
               hence, be careful            01/01/70 00:00      
   re: schematic programs            01/01/70 00:00      
   free schematics            01/01/70 00:00      
   based on what I've seen so far ...            01/01/70 00:00      
   tinycad is Your solution            01/01/70 00:00      
      is it?            01/01/70 00:00      
         maybe            01/01/70 00:00      
   Kicad has not yet been mentioned            01/01/70 00:00      
      It's Good            01/01/70 00:00      

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