Re: EAGLE and simulation

Stef Mientki wrote:

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2. the intuitive user interface is fixated by the definition of M$,
which holds the whole world from introducing real new concepts (like
Dasher). The only one at the moement who is trying to launch new
concepts is Google. So may be in a few years it's Google intead of M$,
who dominates what's intuitive ;-)

Nothing wrong with developing new ways of doing stuff, or coming up with
special procedures if a tool/task demands it, but there has to be some sort
of standard for general use, otherwise people would constantly have to learn
new usage paradigms (see: bad old days of DOS :). Some part of what makes
something intuitive is sheer familiarity with it - Windows has a standard
interface paradigm that everybody is used to, so a Windows app which is
compliant with that paradigm will be easier to use (or get started with, at
any rate).


btw, I use also Orcad V7, 1995, which has a much better user interface
than Eagle (in fact a bad shell around a DOS command line tool)/

And it shows. I've used DX Designer occasionally (to edit schematics
according to instructions), and that feels like another dodgy DOS port with
a ropey interface.



LTspice. And here again the same story, Eagle has become very popular
for hobby and small firms, and thereby has become the defacto
standard.

I get the impression that there's a pretty decent tool behind the dodgy
EAGLE interface. I'd have to say that, if the board size restriction of the
freebie version became an issue, I'd be looking long and hard at the
competition before shelling out the cash for EAGLE.


Maybe KiCAD, very good looking open source schematic / layout package,
can bring the change in this sector of the market.

Is that a Linux app? Is there a ready-built version available?


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Melodolic Spielberg


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