So many comps, like a resistor, will all reference that one symbol. The schematic parts(components) are done so that you have symbols that are referenced from the component library. One problem is that you have to figure out the linkages between the component,symbol,footprint, which is not so obvious. The wizard helps you build components rather easily. Knowing that RS comps are involved they should have put a much bigger effort into creating better libraries, since they insisted in always wanting their part number to be included in a comp (attribute) property. Good ecad libraries are like IP, people make $ having good libraries available to pump out designs. But they do give you enough to work with to get started. Neil should have provided some of his libraries as examples of working libraries, not the crap that is supplied by the ecad vendors, this one included. The libraries are, well poor by my standards. I find sometimes it is better to read a bit, dive in and then go back to the doc if you get stuck on something. I have not gone hrough the DesignSpark tutorials.
Neil's tutorials are well now a bit thin for sure, lots of things missed as far as getting to understand the tools operation. Well playing with this ecad s/w some more, I find it to be a bit clunky. I guess the thing to do, is do up a design and post it here, so others can use it and follow along in this tutorial. Hope he does not give up and can be productive and make use of this free s/w. I am work with Terry(still4given) to help him learn to use a ecad tool. I see people using Eagle, DipTrace, Sprint with all their limitations, God-damit, there must be something these days we can all agree to use and share our designs. Thought this DIY forum, seems to have standardized on using LTSpice but yet can figure out a free usable ecad pcb pkg = nuts. I have used, Cadence Allegro and Mentor BS before, what are considered some of the high end pcb s/w. IMO not as good as orcad, but better than eagle or diptrace.
Not too bad a tutorial, missing a few important points.īut all in all so far, it is what I consider as okay or worth while investing some time for a learning curve. Started from June 2013, to May/June 2015 = quiet a long time. I read the articles in Elektor, written by Neil Greunding. If it runs on Vista so what does that say I get authorization failure when I try to run it on my HP DC5100 desktop using WinXP. I am evaluating DesignSpark PCB version 7.1 on a HP DV6500 laptop running Win Vista I do not know what version was evaluated when this thread was started. It is now 2015, maybe it is time to revisit this software again. Rather than start a new thread I will use this one instead.
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