[time-nuts] Schematic capture, anyone?

[paul swed]

I favor ExpressPCs free schematic generation and board layout....
But Now I have a whole new list to go looking for.
More time-nuts trouble ahead.
Regards
Paul

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Bruce Lane <kyrrin at bluefeathertech.com>wrote:

> Good eve,
>
>        I must be the exception... I've tried Eagle, most recently about
> three months back. I can't stand it. I find it, for my purposes, to be
> about as intuitive as a Salvador Dali painting.
>
>        I've not yet tried DesignSpark, but it looks very promising.
>
>        Personally, I use an old version of OrCAD (9-dot-something, I
> think).
>
>        Happy tweaking.
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 23-Feb-12 at 18:38 Jim Hickstein wrote:
>
> >What do people use these days for schematic capture (and just possibly
> >PCB layout), for low-budget homebrew stuff?
>
>         <snippage>
>
>  It's been so long since I did
> >this, I
> >still own a T-square and a pile of contemporary relics like rules and
> >triangles.
> >  I'll get out my pencil sharpener if I have to.  But really, this must be
> >a
> >solved problem by now.  For less than $300?  I only need TTL, not
> >striplines or
> >any black magic like that.
> >
> >I'm a Mac shop, but can of course run Windows if need be.  And to make
> >matters
> >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).
> >This comes from exposure to Control Data, who were big on it back in the
> >day.  I
> >even used to be on the mailing list of the standards committee.  I suppose
> >that
> >all sank without a trace?  If it's still controversial, I apologize in
> >advance
> >for trolling.
> >
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