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Maybe I did not make myself clear. I am not trying programs anymore. I'm using DipTrace. And I'm doing fine with some help I'm getting with users mostly.
I think I made myself clear on what I wanted: I wanted a program that was intuitive on how you used it and also modern on its capabilities...
No, this thread fulfilled its purpose: to discuss programs in general, what approach to take and maybe which program to choose.
From the programs I had tried I the schematic in three: Circuitmaker, Proteus and DipTrace. The first two were not up to my task or were what I was looking for. The...
In spite of being quite an intuitive set of programs, I decided to move back to DipTrace for the design of my pcb project.
The program has a better tutorial and I could move from schematic to pcb on my first try, which I couldn't do on Proteus, which is what I was using before.
DipTrace is...
Of course I agree to most of what you're saying, but the question is I need this thing going. I need to design this pcb and I have a limited window to do it.
At the same time I'm also trying to find a person who might design the pcb or help me design it.
On practical terms, I have moved to...
My dilemma is that I do need to use a program to make this pcb. My problem is time, which is running out.
Like I said, I first started with Altium and after a week I barely could design the basic pcb in the tutorial for getting started. So many were the details that you have to stop every...
Sorry, that is not an option.
I do want to learn to use one of them, even if it is finding "my way" to use it, and do things as I can do it.
It has always worked so with other programs, so I don't see why now it wouldn't.
Anyway, now I'm trying to make things work with Isis, and then go to...
OK, I think I understand how you create a part in Ares. But how do I create in Isis?
I tried to use an existing one (SPST) to make a toggle switch with three connections points, but I'm not sure if I made it right.
Should I follow the same path as on Ares?
OK, I haven't finished the schematic yet, so I can't load the whole design into Ares yet.
What I tried now and worked is placing the parts in the black window.
Let's go back a bit to schematic: I have been trying to modify and/or create some missing parts, but I was not too successful. How...
You're probably right in your comments.
Perhaps my greatest complaint is most modern programs not being more intuitive. You have to learn your way into buttons and sub-buttons and sub-buttons to get to what you want to do.
AFAIK, most don't let go you direct into pcb design, manual that is...
Sorry to hijack into this discussion, but my problems to find the right pcb design program have been quite similar.
15 years ago I used a DOS program, called Traxedit, which I used to design an audio preamp on a two sided board perfectly.
Unfortunately that program doesn't run in Windows 7...
I am loading an schematic design I have made into Isis, to then convert into a pcb with Ares.
Just to do a simple test for the conversion, even if the schematic is just beginning, you seem to generate a netlist first to go to Ares.
I mean, I press the Ares red button, but when Ares does open...
Hi,
After some peregrination through other pcb design programs (Altium, DipTrace, Eagle, KiCad), I think Proteus might be what I'm looking for. Those other had quite steep learning curves or the tutorials were not exactly corresponding with what the programs should do.
The programs I used to...
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