Jim Hickstein wrote: > What do people use these days for schematic capture (and just possibly PCB > > 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). >
I'll add another vote for Eagle. It is a German program written in Unix, and ported to Windows. Therefore, you select the action first then click on the object of the action. It takes some getting used to. There has been a pattern of PC layout companies getting cobbled up leaving you with an orphan program, or an upgrade to some very expensive program. Orcad and Protel go gobbled up. Eagle did too, but by a distributor, Newark. They just came out with a new improved version. You can finally draw arbitrary SMT footprints. I think that was the major limitation of the old version. You can of course draw your own symbols any way you like. I have been using Eagle for 5 years now and never looked back. One other drawback of Eagle is that it is difficult to move a design between computers, and there are issues with the way preferences are stored. If you use a part from a library in a design, you are forever locked into that library. Many other CAD systems have these issues. Mentor used to be terrible about having absolute path names, etc. Rick N6RK _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.