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A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

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Re: A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

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Post by Gigachad »

Kwpolska wrote: post #8

The competition might look ancient, but IMO, a 2D interface would be much more productive and easier to work with. This site is completely unusable for me in Firefox (it does work in Edge though).

Does the page just show up mostly blank for anyone else?

Re: A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

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Post by duskwuff »

azalemeth wrote: post #26
duskwuff wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still not sure what the 3D aspect in particular adds, though. Tools which work with physical wiring diagrams, like Fritzing, have been available for ages, and I don't think the 2D nature of those tools has ever been a meaningful obstacle to understanding.

In my opinion, 3D is useful if: a) You want to check that your components won't physically bash into something else you care about b) You are designing something that operates at RF to mm-wave frequencies and need to worry (a lot) about the spatial location of the high-frequency components and nearby conductors / ground planes c) You want to get an idea about airflow and heat dissipation on power electronics and/or m…

Those are all good reasons to use 3D capabilities in a more capable tool, but none of them apply here. "Diode" doesn't even check for collisions between parts -- it'll happily let you stick a DIP 555 "inside" another 555, for example -- and it certainly doesn't do any RF or thermal simulation.

Re: A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

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Post by antegamisou »

gumboza wrote: post #25

I want 2003. That's the last time anything worked. LTspice for example. Edit: worth nothing there is a native macOS port of LTspice now.

> I want 2003. That's the last time anything worked.

This. NI Multisim is one of my [proprietary] favorites too.

Re: A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

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Post by sixothree »

Kwpolska wrote: post #8

The competition might look ancient, but IMO, a 2D interface would be much more productive and easier to work with. This site is completely unusable for me in Firefox (it does work in Edge though).

Why is it even a web site? Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but this seems slow and unusable. But more importantly, I have a hard time bringing myself to trust anything that isn't saved locally.

edit: Also I feel terrible that my negative comment has any weight in this thread. I don't want to be a detractor. It's just that this is not for me.

People work hard to make things and you can't please everybody. You definitely can't please curmudgeons like me sometimes.

Re: A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

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Post by CoffeePython »

cpcallen wrote: post #29
Kwpolska wrote: post #8

The competition might look ancient, but IMO, a 2D interface would be much more productive and easier to work with. This site is completely unusable for me in Firefox (it does work in Edge though).

Also doesn't seem to work in Chrome: I see a toolbar and the rest of the page is blank.

looks like we got the HN hug of death lol, back up now

Re: A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

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Post by Arubis »

gumboza wrote: post #25

I want 2003. That's the last time anything worked. LTspice for example. Edit: worth nothing there is a native macOS port of LTspice now.

LTspice at least had a gui! I remember sketching schematics by hand, marking up nodes with names, then feeding plaintext into PSpice.

But it worked great!

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