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. > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >To unsubscribe, go to >https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?" _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.