On 6/23/05, Eric Daine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can certainly sympathize with the way you feel.
Turning off auto-DRC-checking is the only way that I was able to successfully connect pins by hand, at all. The inability to edit traces after their drawn, however, is maddening. And moving parts once they've touched a trace is infuriating -- no matter what I do, it drags all the trace endpoints with it! I end up having to delete and re-draw all the traces to it. This sucks when you accidentally place a chip one pin off, for example. > The point of all this drivel is that I encourage you to stick with it. > I feel you will end up with a system that is very suited to your > personal design style, and you will have control over every aspect. Quite the contrary. I feel very imprisoned and not in control at all. I've more than once thought of making my own PCB editing tool, based on a tile-structure, that allows me to basically "paint" a board, as DeluxePaint allowed me to paint a picture on my old Amiga. > These are powerful tools, they are not easy to learn, but worth it for > the long haul if this is something you want to keep doing. I do not believe that powerful tools need be hard to learn. When I first got into Linux, the command-line tools were natural extensions of what I'd already known about DOS. Learning about regular expressions wasn't even as difficult as working with PCB right now. PCB and I will just never see eye to eye, and that's the way it is, I guess. And since I'm going into all-new territory with the actual production of a printed circuit board, I'm sure *that* will just be just dandy having to learn about Gerber files, Excellon drill files, etc. -- Samuel A. Falvo II
