Talking about "clean, optimized UI" : In gschem:
- how can I create a "palette" of basic components such as nmos, nmos3, pmos, pmos3, polyresistor and so on (especially useful for micro-electronic) ? - Edition of properties is also very important in micro-electronic. Can someone point me how to create a panel (docking window or something) with properties of selected component ? Thanks Richard To add to the wishlist in matter of "clean, optimized UI": - automatically put the name of the net next to the pin of the component placed - clean the "?" mess, give the opportunity to have read-only, derived, calculated or default propterties (think of Cadence iPar(), cdsTerm(), cdsName(), minimal L,W for transistors... and yes the actual autonumber) - proposed a nice formatted presentation of properties next the the component such as (W*M/L): 12u x 4 ------- 4u - proposed some fonts ([serif,sans-serif,monspace],[italic,bold]) - a complex find and replace - external images such as eps graphics. - symbols with origin on the most useful pin (so negative points are valid) - when leaving the mouse over something, gives some info such as net name - separate pins from their figure representation. (driving to EDIF someday) - and many many other.... On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 16:22, Dale Grover wrote: > Realistically, this is probably as good an article as it gets. It's > very good to see these tools get good press. > > I can't let the following go by, though: > 'The gEDA software is "an interesting project" but is not > "professional caliber," said Ian Suttie, vice president of sales and > marketing at Electronics Workbench. "While gEDA has lots of primitive > functionality, it does not provide a clean, optimized user interface > of the sort professional engineers demand. Neither does gEDA software > provide some of the functionality essential for professional use."' > > I bought the schematic entry/pcb/autorouter package a few years from > Electronics Workbench. It crashed frequently for me, had problems > with new part design, and in general frustrated me so much that I > gave up using it. I would specifically not associate the words > "professional caliber" with that software. Granted, this is a sales > and marketing person, and perhaps the software has been improved > tremendously and is now "professional caliber," but it did give me a > laugh reading this. > > It is a pleasure using open-source tools such as PCB, and my thanks > go out to the folks who have put so much time and effort into the > tools. > > --Dale Grover > (So far, two 4-layer boards successfully fabricated by PCBExpress > using PCB software under Mac OS X) > > > At 10:54 AM -0800 12/14/04, John Eaton wrote: > >Ales Hvezda wrote: > > > >>Hi All, > >> > >>Thought I'd pass this along: > >> > >>http://www.eedesign.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=55301354 > >> > >>Many thanks to all who contribute and use gEDA. > >> > >>-Ales > >> > >> > >> > >Good article. > > > >It always irk's me when someone says that Open Source isn't > >"professional caliber" or lacks user support. CAD software is > >complex and everyone has bug's and anomilies. gEDA is no > >worse than some of the stuff I had to pay for. Commercial > >vendors are always trying to cram in more new features > >and want to lock in their users . Open source is much more > >aligned with the end user's best interest and doesn't play those > >games. > > > >I have had supported comercial software where you call them and > >say "your tool doesn't work when I do this" and they respond > >" don't do that". > > > >John Eaton >
