[time-nuts] Schematic capture, anyone?

[Bruce Lane]

Good eve,

	I must be the exception... I've tried Eagle, most recently about three months back. I can't stand it. I find it, for my purposes, to be about as intuitive as a Salvador Dali painting.

	I've not yet tried DesignSpark, but it looks very promising.

	Personally, I use an old version of OrCAD (9-dot-something, I think).

	Happy tweaking.

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********

On 23-Feb-12 at 18:38 Jim Hickstein wrote:

>What do people use these days for schematic capture (and just possibly
>PCB layout), for low-budget homebrew stuff?

	<snippage>

  It's been so long since I did
>this, I 
>still own a T-square and a pile of contemporary relics like rules and
>triangles. 
>  I'll get out my pencil sharpener if I have to.  But really, this must be
>a 
>solved problem by now.  For less than $300?  I only need TTL, not
>striplines or 
>any black magic like that.
>
>I'm a Mac shop, but can of course run Windows if need be.  And to make
>matters 
>worse, I prefer ANSI logic symbology over shovels-and-spades (or, really,
>over 
>plain rectangles where you're expected to know what the part number
>means). 
>This comes from exposure to Control Data, who were big on it back in the
>day.  I 
>even used to be on the mailing list of the standards committee.  I suppose
>that 
>all sank without a trace?  If it's still controversial, I apologize in
>advance 
>for trolling.
>
>_______________________________________________
>time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
>To unsubscribe, go to
>https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
>and follow the instructions there.


-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"