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Offline ZeTeXTopic starter

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Schematic Editior Software With Hotkeys
« on: March 18, 2016, 10:39:50 pm »
I'm looking for easy to use free schematic editor.

What I currenly use is LTSpice and its great, easiest and best software I used so far, but it doesnt have alot of symbols e.g screw terminals and such..
Most of the schematic editors I tried dont have hotkeys, and you cant click F2 write quickly R press enter and boom a resistor, you need to actually move your mouse click a few buttons and then you will get you resistor, and I hate it, it feels like a simple schematic takes hours to draw. thats what I like about ltspice - I can draw schematics extremely quick.

I tried many softwares and all of them are or too simple, or too complicated..
 

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Re: Schematic Editior Software With Hotkeys
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2016, 11:03:25 pm »
Have you tried KiCAD?

A lot of the normal tasks have hotkeys, and you can make your own symbols if you can't find one in the library.
 

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Re: Schematic Editior Software With Hotkeys
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2016, 11:08:17 pm »
Yes, KiCad is (or at least can be) quite keyboard-driven. I like it for the same reason.
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Re: Schematic Editior Software With Hotkeys
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2016, 09:31:38 am »
Yes, KiCad is (or at least can be) quite keyboard-driven. I like it for the same reason.
I'm trying KiCad and it seems like I can learn to use it, But I have one major problem - everything is mirrored, if I move my mouse to the left the sheet moves to the right, also every compoent letter is mirroed like this:


Also I have to click end tool on everything and that is just annoying, is there anyway to disable it so it will be like in ltspice where you just right click when you finished?
Also when I click the home button the sheet just becomes black and I have to zoom in to fix this (bug)
Also everything I click on F3 which I set to "Begin Wire" it just draw random wire and not just switch to the tool.. (other bug).

I think I have some technical problems with kicad, time to format this damn crappy windows 10.
too many annoying things..
« Last Edit: March 19, 2016, 10:57:22 am by ZeTeX »
 

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Re: Schematic Editior Software With Hotkeys
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2016, 08:31:45 pm »
ZeTeX, it looks like you've found a pretty ugly bug in KiCad. I can confirm it on my own system, and have filed a report in the bug tracker. If you'd like to follow and see when it gets fixed, you can create a Launchpad account and then subscribe yourself to the bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1559545
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Re: Schematic Editior Software With Hotkeys
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2016, 12:46:25 am »
Try toggling the trackpad panning function on and then off to reset all the state related to it.  This was added quite recently and is great if you use a trackpad, but it might get confused if you enable it with a mouse.
 


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