Electronics > Beginners
Free circuit simulator ?
DimitriP:
--- Quote ---The GUI is trash
--- End quote ---
What is trash is running "ungodly" resolutions on puny monitors. Or "ultrawide" that are barely 10 inches tall.
0culus:
--- Quote from: lordvader88 on March 30, 2019, 01:20:59 pm ---I'm just doing hobby stuff, and I lost the older, simple nice looking sim I had, and LTspice is way over the top for now.
I hate online sim's in priniclpe, so what free programs are easy/look good/have common transistors, opamps already included ?
I tried 2-3 freeware sim's over this past year, and I don't remember their names, and I didn't like them. If I place a BJT and resistors, and even a GND, it should work without having to read a damn manual do run the sim, not give BS errors.
--- End quote ---
It took me all of half an hour the other day to grasp the basics of LTSpice, after never having used it. Sometimes you just have to embrace the suck and RTFM (Read the Fine Manual :) ). Lots of useful info...
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on April 01, 2019, 12:36:09 am ---As an old fart, what annoys me is that people constantly draw schematics with LTspice that do not follow the conventions of normally drawn ones.
--- End quote ---
WHAT iS!.......... gnorw
thAt
With?
Can ye knot reed?
newbrain:
--- Quote from: rstofer on April 02, 2019, 12:23:15 am ---The GUI is trash because the menu buttons don't scale with screen resolution. With a 3000x2000 screen even scaled to 300%, the buttons are still virtually invisible. Buttons like 'Move' are VERY hard to find. There's little contrast and the button is less than 1/8" even on a 27" monitor. It is almost impossible to use on my 13" Surface Book.
--- End quote ---
That's strange. I use a 27" WQHD display (2560x1440) and the interface size follows the scaling setting in Windows 10 (see the attached pict for 100%, 150% and 175%).
--- Quote from: Cliff Matthews on April 02, 2019, 12:30:01 am ---M$ wants vintage-ware to just go away (even if it is good, and especially if it's free).
--- End quote ---
I tend to disregard any post containing M$, but honestly this is :bullshit:.
If there's one thing that Windows strives to do is keeping backwards compatibility. Even to the point of being a hindrance.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: rstofer on April 02, 2019, 12:23:15 am ---
--- Quote from: newbrain on March 31, 2019, 10:10:17 am ---I suspect the interface feels unintuitive to most people for a simple reason:
The vast majority of GUI based programs use an object-action paradigm, one select the object e.g. a component or wire) then decides what to do with it (e.g. move, rotate, copy).
--- End quote ---
I use LTspice HOWEVER...
The GUI is trash because the menu buttons don't scale with screen resolution. With a 3000x2000 screen even scaled to 300%, the buttons are still virtually invisible. Buttons like 'Move' are VERY hard to find. There's little contrast and the button is less than 1/8" even on a 27" monitor. It is almost impossible to use on my 13" Surface Book.
With a 1920x1080 display the program is fine.
Nobody else seems to have this problem. Probably because they don't size objects in terms of pixels.
So, I use LTspice but only if I am desperate! It's a great tool but not on my main system. When I'm really desparate, I run it on another machine.
--- End quote ---
Tools → control panel → operation → toolbar icon size
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version