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author: SixD
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2013, 06:59:47 pm
content: Should I use Fritzing or someother software and if what software.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2013, 09:28:07 pm
content: It depends from your needs.It would be better to learn and use a proper PCB design tool.Alexander.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2013, 10:13:33 pm
content: Quote from: SixD on December 16, 2013, 06:59:47 pmIf you are a hobbiest doing fairly simple boards Fritzing is great, easy and intuitive.If you need more then you'll need something bigger.But why ask, there's no money involved, and nothing to lose, so just download Fritzing and see if it meets your needs.

author: SixD
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2013, 11:09:35 pm
content: I tested fritzing and it not so good. Is eagle good?

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2013, 11:20:03 pm
content: Quote from: SixD on December 16, 2013, 11:09:35 pmI tasted dog shit and it's not so good. Is lutefisk good?Just kidding.You will find Eagle many orders of magnitude better than Fritzing."Easy and intuitive" is for children's toys.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2013, 11:32:53 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on December 16, 2013, 11:20:03 pm"Easy and intuitive" and "powerful" are not required to be mutually exclusive.Unfortunately the developers of interfaces for the "powerful" EDA software for some reason decided that they are.

author: SixD
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2013, 11:40:51 pm
content: I Will test eagle..

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2013, 11:47:33 pm
content: Quote from: sleemanj on December 16, 2013, 11:32:53 pmOh, of course not. I meant that bit of curmudgeonry to be more or less tongue-in-cheek: if someday some very good developer comes up with a way to make an EDA package easy, intuitiveandpowerful, I will be quite happy to use it. But until somebody finally figures out how to build one, we're going to have to either settle for power, with a steep learning curve, or have an easy time doing not much at all.IOW, I welcome attempts at making EDA easy, but I've accepted that that's not likely to happen any time soon, and Fritzing sure ain't it. Fritzing is good at a small selection of the features that its own developers thought would be useful.We all need different things from EDA packages. Most users will only use 20% of what a package has to offer, but as we all use adifferent20%, we're all going to think it's useless if it only offers the developers' favorite 20%.Quote from: SixD on December 16, 2013, 11:40:51 pmAlso try DipTrace. I'm a fan of KiCad as well, but it's definitely not as professional.In my not so humble opinion gEDA sucks ass, but you could try that too.Everything else is expensive, unless I've forgotten something.

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2013, 12:06:34 am
content: Quote from: sleemanj on December 16, 2013, 11:32:53 pmUnfortunately, Powerful = options...options...options...options... != "Easy and intuitive"If in the software development world the spun off an interface designer category then, said Interface Designer should never of heard of an unsigned int

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2013, 12:45:19 am
content: Quote from: AlfBaz on December 17, 2013, 12:06:34 amOnly if the interface is poorly developed.Quote from: AlfBaz on December 17, 2013, 12:06:34 amYes, this is the main problem, the interfaces for EDA software (any not just EDA there are some other areas which suffer the same fate) have pretty much been developed along-the-way by the programmers and the people who are already familiar with the software, which invariably leads to silly interfaces built on multiple layers of inside knowledge requiring a lot of investment from a new person in time and learning to just get functional in using the software and "used" to the arcane interfaces."Of course to do X you must press CTRL-SHIFT-Y, hold the mouse button for 2 seconds, drag to the left, raise your right leg and sing god save the queen, how can you not know that, it's so easy!"

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2013, 01:08:44 am
content: Quote from: sleemanj on December 17, 2013, 12:45:19 amSo funny, because it's so true

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2013, 01:10:54 am
content: Quote from: sleemanj on December 17, 2013, 12:45:19 amOfcourse! I've been trying to figure out how to rewrap a paragraph in emacs formonths!Thank you!By the way, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" does the same, but also converts all UK spellings to American. Quite useful

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 01:01:17 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on December 17, 2013, 01:10:54 amemacs is a nice operating system, but what text editor were you using?

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2013, 01:18:56 pm
content: vim, of course.