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| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: fourfathom on November 16, 2021, 05:21:16 pm --- --- Quote from: ejeffrey on November 16, 2021, 04:29:50 pm ---I am a bit disappointed that regular schematic design has not adopted color. --- End quote --- Please, though, consider the *very* common red/green color deficiency that affects a good percentage of the male population. Some colors are extremely hard for me and others to tell apart, and it's not just red and green. At least make sure there is redundant information on the schematic so I can figure it out without being able to differentiate all the colors. --- End quote --- Good point. Also, I've seen a lot of abuse of colors for schematics. They should not be used to replace proper layout of schematics using "reasonable" symbols. I personally find colored wires/busses awful. An acceptable use of colors is giving IC symbols a colored background - like the common light yellow - but that's about it. Also, color printers may not be a lot more expensive - although in a company's context, most printers are laser and reasonably reliable printers for corporate use are still more expensive in color... but also the printing cost per sheet is a lot higher. If you have never worked in a company with accountants telling people to stop printing in color unless it's absolutely necessary, you're lucky. ;) |
| Bassman59:
--- Quote from: james_s on November 16, 2021, 08:25:07 am --- --- Quote from: m3vuv on November 15, 2021, 12:49:51 pm ---looking at some circuit designs online it looks to me like a lot of ppl are using this Fritzing thing,i find them horrid,look like sommat out of a 2yr olds scribbleing book,whats ppls views on it?,give me a proper schematic any day!!. --- End quote --- Fritzing diagrams remind me a lot of your grammar, I can barely read it. I can't stand Fritzing diagrams myself but they are really only used by beginners, mostly maker types, any real engineer and most mid range hobbyists use proper schematics, they haven't gone anywhere. --- End quote --- Seriously, the poster complains about Fritzing but his post is written in Authentic SMS Gibberish. Something about motes and beams in eyes here, I think. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Bassman59 on November 16, 2021, 06:26:03 pm ---Seriously, the poster complains about Fritzing but his post is written in Authentic SMS Gibberish. Something about motes and beams in eyes here, I think. --- End quote --- I wouldn't have said anything except I'm fairly sure I remember him popping into a thread with nothing more than a complaint about some minor grammatical mistake, by someone who was not a native English speaker. SMS gibberish made some sense back in the days of flip phones and 160 character limits, but with modern smartphones that almost everyone has you have got to be exceptionally lazy to not at least try to use something resembling proper grammar. With autocorrect, auto suggest and support for much longer messages there is no need for abbreviations that make it harder to read. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: m3vuv on November 15, 2021, 12:49:51 pm ---looking at some circuit designs online it looks to me like a lot of ppl are using this Fritzing thing,i find them horrid,look like sommat out of a 2yr olds scribbleing book,whats ppls views on it?,give me a proper schematic any day!!. --- End quote --- I know it's common to type in social media acronyms - I do it myself, and it's a hangover from the times when sending SMS cost money (here in the UK, it no longer does in a per unit sense), but in this context, I feel it would behove you to type words and sentences in their full forms. After all, it's not 1999, and you're not trying to save 10 pence by shortening the contents of a two-SMS, 20 pence worth of SMS to fit them into one ;D |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: amyk on November 16, 2021, 02:40:48 pm ---For laptop schematics and such where components have hundreds or thousands of pins, I can see the utility. But using that style for something much simpler is adding complexity where there shouldn't be any. When both ends of a net are on the same page, try to connect them with an actual wire. --- End quote --- If I have a SWD/Clk debug signal from micro going off to a debug connector, I'm not going to bother running the wires off to it on the side of the page. Kinda prefer organized blocks in the same area, eg connectors all along the left side of the page. But, these are schematics for myself, I get how its harder to understand whats going on. And you can definitely get caught doing this if you forget to hook up a net and don't run a schematic check. |
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