Hello, I recently joined this group and itś the first time i write. I'm a student of electronics engineering and I installed Ubuntu. I will need circuit simulation software. I used sometimes Orcad under Windows. It seems to be the only one, it's very complete, but i hate that program. I don't know why things done by engineers to engineers have to be so difficult, have a so unfriendly, not intuitive interface. Altough it performs what it is supposed to very good, and has very complete libraries of components, i think Orcad has a lousy interface. Anyway, i'll use it under wine or virtualbox if i have no choice, because it's the only one my professors can help me use.
But I am looking for linux native, preferably free software alternatives. I've had a look in Qucs, and followed the simple voltage divider example in the Getting started help, but i couldn't get the simulation results. The simulation runs (no netlist errors), but i get the message "checker error, no actions defined: nothing to do" and the node i labeled to get the result doesn't show at the left tab in the diagram where it should be. I took also a look at Oregano, I manage to simulate the same simple example and it worked, but it seems rather incomplete (very few options and libraries). I tried to look at the help but it didn't open the ghelp:oregano URI. It seems to me that these softwares are in early work in progress stages... Please, if someones uses this kind of software, what's the best choice? Even if it is proprietary, if it is as good (complete) and as bad (lousy interface and dificult to use) as the Windows Orcad, i'll use it, but i have at least to have a free trial that convinces me that it is good enough, and have some documentation. Orcad is bad but at least i have someone that uses it to ask questions... Can someone help me? Thanks in advance, Leo
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