Circuit Studio in Wine (Linux)

[ubbut]

Just letting you know, Circuit Studio does run in Wine.
I used these instructions for Circuit Maker:
https://circuitmaker.com/blog/3-steps-for-installing-circuitmaker-on-linux

There are some minor graphic bugs, nothing serious. Quite usable.
edit: graphic bug when pressing P-P in schematic editor seems to be in the windows version as well So no graphic bug related to wine

[trevwhite]

It dont work that great in Windows, surprised it works in Wine. 

[malagas_on_fire]

Even the circuit maker student version works on Wine, which is suitable for learning purposes and freeware.

Download link from BR school

http://docente.ifrn.edu.br/leonardoteixeira/links/instalador-do-circuitmaker-student/view

Update : testing for real on Wine

[voltsandjolts]

Even the circuit maker student version works on Wine, which is suitable for learning purposes and freeware.

Download link from BR school

http://docente.ifrn.edu.br/leonardoteixeira/links/instalador-do-circuitmaker-student/view

That is MicroCode CircuitMaker, not at all related to Altium Circuitstudio, Altium CircuitMaker or this forum.

[ubbut]

It dont work that great in Windows, surprised it works in Wine. 

Since my first post I have had a couple of the well known Altium crashes - but surprisingly the program continues to run perfectly. This is for example when importing a CircuitMaker pcb file, without having an other PCB file in the project. I don't know if this is a bug in Windows as well...(I could imagine it is)

[voltsandjolts]

Could you post some screenshots of CS in WINE? Just curious to see how it looks.
Does the PCB 3D view work?

[ubbut]

I guess it looks the same as in windows.

[voltsandjolts]

Thanks for that.
It does look the same, I was expecting some bad looking fonts or such-like.
Good to see CS is usable in WINE, I need to try it.

[malagas_on_fire]

Even the circuit maker student version works on Wine, which is suitable for learning purposes and freeware.

Download link from BR school

http://docente.ifrn.edu.br/leonardoteixeira/links/instalador-do-circuitmaker-student/view

That is MicroCode CircuitMaker, not at all related to Altium Circuitstudio, Altium CircuitMaker or this forum.

Thanks for the info. I though the old circuit maker.... Well in that case thats amazing

[ubbut]

In order to get the .DXF import working, one needs to install TeighaX as described in this post:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/circuit-studio/create-pcb-outline-from-dxf/

Install TeighaX in the correct wine prefix:

Code: [Select]

WINEPREFIX=/home/xxx/.wine-circuitstudio/ wine msiexec /i /home/xxx/.../TeighaX_Setup_3.9.0.msi

then follow the instructions in the above post.

[Superglob]

Hey Everyone,

This thread is quite a few years old and some of the links are stale. Anyone have any good instructions on how to get CircuitStudio to run under Linux Mint? I only have a few programs I use on Windows and it's beginning to irritate me so if I can move over CircuitStudio and get it to work properly, that'd be great.

Much appreciated!

SG

[voltsandjolts]

I'm not an active CS user these days, I gravitated to AD...which I would also like to get running on WINE.
Have you tried installing and running CS in WINE?
What's the showstopping issue?

I tried looking for
https://circuitmaker.com/blog/3-steps-for-installing-circuitmaker-on-linux
in the wayback machine...it's says 9 captures but none load for me

Alternatively, this link might give a starting point (it's for CM rather than CS):
https://github.com/sinara-hw/meta/issues/63

nix-shell -p wine winetricks
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/sb/.wine-circuitmaker winetricks vd=1920x1080 -q gdiplus corefonts riched20 mdac28 msxml6 dotnet40
WINEPREFIX=/home/sb/.wine-circuitmaker winecfg
# go to the "Libraries" tab, find "msado15", click "Add", make sure it's marked as "native, builtin"
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-circuitmaker wine ~/.wine-circuitmaker/drive_c/Program\ Files/Altium/CM/DXP.EXE


tested on NixOS 20.09.2654.646f528cce6
vd=1920x1080 works around the orange rectangle masking the login dialog box during installation
the msado15 override works around the access violation in IntegratedLibrary.DLL during Circuitmaker startup

This makes Circuitmaker work as intended without requiring Windoze (it seems full Altium Designer won't run at all in Wine), and it can open schematic files faster and with fewer limitations than the Altium online viewer.