I don't think it is a matter of skill. I am an engineer / scientist who is interested in what *works*. I am paid to get a certain piece of work done (for the best possible design in the shortest amount of time), not spend time working around imperfections of certain pieces of software when better alternatives might exist.
A smart person picks the best tool for the job (within the constraints), not pick up an ideology and then waste time working around imperfections in the current implementation of something consistent with that ideology. I don't want to get preachy here because there was a time when anything I used had to be open source (except for stuff prescribed for classes). I was merely looking for a clarification after I had formed certain negative first impressions. To me, it is obvious that pcb/geda is superior to eagle. But there is a gap between the schematic drawing program (gschem) and the circuit simulation that other competitors do not have. Since multiple circuit iterations usually occur during the simulation period of the design (long before it is laid out for a PCB), any extra time wasted in any one of these steps has a multiplier effect on the overall time spent. Professionally, that is unacceptable, regardless of my personal inclinations, or ideologies. I have come across MI-Sugar (which has been discontinued but free (not open source)). The author plans to release a successor to the program (Volta) in a couple of days, so I am going to check that out later. Of course, it does not have PCB layout, but for that, I can always use geda. I will like to thank all of you who informed me of various aspects of geda that I was not very conversant with. I might be back with further questions later about some other parts of geda that I find much better implemented from a usability standpoint than gschem. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:34 AM, John Doty <[1]...@noqsi.com> wrote: On Apr 24, 2010, at 10:30 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Unfortunately, the opposite is true for gschem/gnucap vs ltspice Unfortunately, it takes more skill to drive a Jeep than it take to drive a tricycle. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. [2]http://www.noqsi.com/ [3]...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [4]geda-u...@moria.seul.org [5]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user References 1. mailto:j...@noqsi.com 2. http://www.noqsi.com/ 3. mailto:j...@noqsi.com 4. mailto:geda-user@moria.seul.org 5. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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