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Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package

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Re: Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package

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Post by karotte »

xondono wrote: post #99
ruslan wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A year and a half ago we abandoned using Cadence and Altium in favour of KiCAD. Extremely high cost of licensing was a reason, but not the only one. Our first steps with KiCAD were hard and tiresome, my engineers even tried to sabotage the work a couple of times. But now as we got used to KiCAD I'm pretty much happy with this decision. KiCAD's GUI needs rework, also its net naming convension is flowed (try to re-anno…

How recent was that DDR3 design? Last time I checked length tunning on kicad was a nightmare to get to work properly. If they’ve improved it I might give it a chance

If you want good length tuning, look no further than Horizon EDA ;) https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/feature-overvie...

Re: Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package

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Post by unnouinceput »

mdszy wrote: post #79
unnouinceput wrote: post #42

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In my commonly used software I click on damn things, little boxes appear on corners and I can just drag them in/out to decrease/increase the size. Or if 3D software I have 3 more lines to rotate/roll for each axis. That's my commonly used software.

EDA is a type of CAD software, there's a bit more to it than "baby's first schematic editor". Things are going to be different and if that's what's making you quit the software I have to imagine you wouldn't even be using it anyway and you just thought it looked cool despite not being an actual EDA user.

I would not call CorelDraw, AutoCAD, OrCAD "baby". Those are the "babies" that implement what I said above. This one here can learn a thing or 2

Re: Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package

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Post by atoav »

unnouinceput wrote: post #102
mdszy wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EDA is a type of CAD software, there's a bit more to it than "baby's first schematic editor". Things are going to be different and if that's what's making you quit the software I have to imagine you wouldn't even be using it anyway and you just thought it looked cool despite not being an actual EDA user.

I would not call CorelDraw, AutoCAD, OrCAD "baby". Those are the "babies" that implement what I said above. This one here can learn a thing or 2

Onboarding users more easily was the idea. I think having icons with tooltips that include shortcuts is of similar importance and something like a “First steps“ Project where it just tells you about navigation and the spacebar menu.

I myself would probably not assume that because there is no explicit button it cannot be done ( I'd rather try the usual thing like spacebar drag, middle mousebutton, etc).

However I understand that this might depend on your background and your willingness to learn the damn thing, which is why lowering the entry bar is worth it imo.

Re: Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package

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Post by mdszy »

unnouinceput wrote: post #102
mdszy wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EDA is a type of CAD software, there's a bit more to it than "baby's first schematic editor". Things are going to be different and if that's what's making you quit the software I have to imagine you wouldn't even be using it anyway and you just thought it looked cool despite not being an actual EDA user.

I would not call CorelDraw, AutoCAD, OrCAD "baby". Those are the "babies" that implement what I said above. This one here can learn a thing or 2

CorelDraw and AutoCAD aren't EDA software.

Re: Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package

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Post by IshKebab »

atoav wrote: post #74
IshKebab wrote: post #59

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Nice work! The world badly needs a FOSS EDA program that isn't insane. Any plans for Mac downloads? And also, does its component model separate out schematic symbols and pin assignment (like DesignSpark PCB and I assume others) or are they inseparable (like KicadPCB)?

Horizon probaly has the most flexible and modular library concept there I ever saw. You can reuse things, inherit from things etc. This is a good summery (with a nice graphic of the structure of an example part): https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pool-why.html

Wow... documentation?! This looks so much better than Kicad.
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