Diptrace free version is limited to 300 pins and 2 layer board. how is that better than eagle free version.
Kicad is free and has no limits t all. It is supported by the CERN, and will stay free for quite a long time.
95% of my designs have a lot more pins than 300, and I often use for layers for Radio Frequency designs, so both Diptrace and Eagle would cost me a lot to use them.
Just my two cents,
Jean-Paul
N1JPL
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On Feb 24, 2019, at 1:15 PM, Rob via Groups.Io <roomberg@...> wrote:
definitely like this better than EAGLE or KiCad.
Thank you.
On 02/24/2019 06:57 AM, Mark Jordan wrote:
In the past I was a Tango PCB user and liked it very much! Now it runs only in a DOSbox.
Have tried KiCAD but not liked it. Same with DesignSpark.
Found DipTrace Free and liked it! Very easy to learn and use.
73,
Mark Jordan - PY3SS
On 24-Feb-19 03:08, brane212 wrote:
BTW, since new serias( 5.xx) of KiCAD is out, I've decided to get at least a taste of it, so, I've installed it and:
- it still feels awkward to me.
- it's too bloated for its function
-it's still buggy as it crashes a lot, at least inside my constext ( Gentoo, Wayland, Enlightenment)
- it's slow
-its value added options ( resistance calculator etcetc) are of dubious value for me
So, at least for me, KiCAD is not really that enticing option.
Branko
On 22. 02. 19 08:42, brane212 wrote:
These things can be set up.
If you don't find solution by yourself, get on their mail list and ask.
Branko
On 22. 02. 19 02:34, William Kimber wrote:
Well I tried the pcb-lesstif version in my distro and it is just as unusable as the plain pcb.
Font is too small, very light and just about unreadable once a menu is opened. In neither case does it follow the standard font size set in Systems Settings.
Sorry but not usable to me and since I had eye surgery my sight is spot on.
Cheers,
Will
On 22/02/19 3:23 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
"Rob via Groups.Io" <roomberg@...> writes:
THANK YOU
You're welcome.
what is lesstif HID ?
A HID is a "human interface device". PCB has two HIDs that are GUIs -
one that uses the GTK toolkit, and the other uses the Lesstif (typically
Motif these days) toolkit.
If you installed PCB from your distro, you may have an alternate package
you can install instead of "pcb" like "pcb-lesstif".
If you're building pcb from sources, use "./configure --with-gui=lesstif"
There's also a "batch" HID we use for scripting (like the testsuite, and
web CGIs) as well as a large range of export HIDs (like gerber,
postscript, png, etc).
