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Article #20Re: what is best & simple PCB maker?
From: Russell
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:36
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:36
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John Devereux wrote: > Russell <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au> wrote: > >>For its age, you'd think it would have all the quirks and bugs >>worked out. > > It does; I have only encountered one significant bug in ~15 > years use. I think the yearly fee is more for support and > program update rights, rather than bug fixes. This is the kind of thing i hate: - open a schematic symbol library like C:\vutrax\lib\74hc\h00_44.log - draw a box around the top left symbol (NAND2-HC00) - do Edit|Clipboard|Copy-Boxed-to-Clipbrd - click inside the box This gives an error: Box must be a closed rectangle along X and Y axes. Now where's the help button or faq on this stupid error? Only this morning did i figure out to click near a corner of the box instead of the gate within the box. I could write far better software than this. > Perhaps the "quirks" are historical. Reasonable design > decisions (enforced by low performance hardware) are now > locked in by the size of the code base and the need for > backwards compatibility. > >>I'm shitted off with the price and/or crappiness of >>the user interface of all these cad systems, especially as they >>cost nothing to sell. I think a decent free linux one is in order... > > Probably this is because of the small market. I would guess > that the price for a given level of functionality has come > down ~10 fold in the last 20 years. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the aus/us exchange rate.
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