On 09/08/2011 03:24 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: The good part of kicad was, that producing
a PCB is easily possible even if you know nothing about the tool. But getting to more advanced features was hard to impossible within the time i tried it. Now comes the catch: When i was a teenager, i did an electronics project in high school. Not having access to the internet and not knowing anything about OSS (i dont think gEDA existed back then), i got a copy of Orcad for DOS (it was ancient even back then). But, within a day i was able to enter my first test schematics and produce something that looked like a PCB yes, OrCad was a very powerful eda tool and to a certain extent quite intuitive. I used this for many years back then. . . . Now the question is, why isn't there any OSS EDA tool out there that combines the availability of complex features with ease of use like Orcad did 20 years ago? I truly believe that you have to take the strict viewpoint of the hardware designers who will be the majority of users -- and not sit back as a programmer --- when it comes to laying out a reasonable User Interface for an EDA Tool. The OrCad tool was a prime example of this. If there were one, i'd be happy to throw money at it, to help it being developed. Attila Kinali I also agree. I would be willing to do the same. I noticed somewhere on the geda website that some arrangement has been made already with Linuxfund.org to help toward this cause. I only see a mention of the PCB tool - and no mention of gSchem or others. I wonder if someone can clarify this here. I think this is one more reason to compile a concise list of features contained in this tool suite as an overview to help new or returning users to see the importance of this project. =Dan
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