On 06.03.24 06:42, Jon Evans wrote:
> The KiCad team is conducting a survey of users to get more information
> about how people use KiCad and other design tools, and what they like and
> dislike about it. This survey should only take a few minutes to complete.
>
> Fill out the survey here: 2024 User Survey
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> This survey will remain open until approximately May 2024.
Tried it just now, but hit:
"Error loading resources
This resource doesn't exist or you don't have the neccessary rights to
access it."
Several attempts, same result.
In any event, I'm just familiarising on a first serious Kicad project,
after years of using Eagle. I'm impressed to find not only ATmegas, but
also a 6-pin DIL header already pin-identified as AVR-ISP-6, so no need
to remember where miso, mosi, reset, and sck go. Nifty.
It's taking an hour or two to put into muscle memory how to rotate, that
flip is mirror - about (not in) X or Y, that an Escape is necessary to
leave the clutches of selected zoom when you now want to select a
component group, and that wires do not stretch when that group is moved
- they just disconnect.
The on-line manual is a life saver, especially for a 70 yo who does not
find most GUIs even remotely intuitive. I find it's the user who has to
be programmed. Eagle was stranger, I think. The fact that I came across
just to have a look, but am staying, at least so far, says it all, perhaps.
It'll be interesting when it comes time to send off the PCB files.
Erik
