Re: [OTish] Electronics (for HA)

[David Paterson <david.paterson@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:36:27 +0100, you wrote:

>It isnt perfect and on a few occasions I actually crashed it. Like you,
I
>couldnt find a way to place things EXACTLY where I wanted them but my
main
>purpose for using it was to document layouts. By saving the image and
then
>doctoring it in Paint Shop Pro I could get a really good picture to
save as
>a record of a finished design.

That sounds like my experience.  I'll probably do the same with my
last
project to put some pics on the web, but it would be nice if it
actually
did what it was supposed to.

>It had a great deal of potential, pity the company folded because with
a bit
>more work it could have been an excellent product. The one bit I
really
>HATED was the schematic part.
>That was truly awful :-(

LOL - it is indeed.  It seems to have some very strange ideas
about
where the connections should go!

I've thought about writing something like it myself, but I've no idea
where to get ideas for algorithms.  The graphics part of it would
be
dead easy, but I think the layout and routing methods are much harder
to
do properly.

Anyway, I only do about 2 boards a year, so it's not too much effort
just to do them by hand :-)

David P.



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