Fritzing

[SixD]

Should I use Fritzing or someother software and if what software.

[firewalker]

It depends from your needs.

It would be better to learn and use a proper PCB design tool.

Alexander.

[sleemanj]

Should I use Fritzing or someother software and if what software.

If you are a hobbiest doing fairly simple boards Fritzing is great, easy and intuitive. 

If you need more then you'll need something bigger.

But why ask, there's no money involved, and nothing to lose, so just download Fritzing and see if it meets your needs.

[SixD]

I tested fritzing and it not so good. Is eagle good?

[c4757p]

I tested fritzing and it not so good. Is eagle good?

I tasted dog shit and it's not so good. Is lutefisk good?

Just kidding. You will find Eagle many orders of magnitude better than Fritzing.

"Easy and intuitive" is for children's toys.

[sleemanj]

"Easy and intuitive" is for children's toys.

"Easy and intuitive" and "powerful" are not required to be mutually exclusive.

Unfortunately the developers of interfaces for the "powerful" EDA software for some reason decided that they are.

[SixD]

I Will test eagle..

[c4757p]

"Easy and intuitive" and "powerful" are not required to be mutually exclusive.

Oh, of course not. I meant that bit of curmudgeonry to be more or less tongue-in-cheek: if someday some very good developer comes up with a way to make an EDA package easy, intuitive and powerful, I will be quite happy to use it. But until somebody finally figures out how to build one, we're going to have to either settle for power, with a steep learning curve, or have an easy time doing not much at all.

IOW, I welcome attempts at making EDA easy, but I've accepted that that's not likely to happen any time soon, and Fritzing sure ain't it. Fritzing is good at a small selection of the features that its own developers thought would be useful.

We all need different things from EDA packages. Most users will only use 20% of what a package has to offer, but as we all use a different 20%, we're all going to think it's useless if it only offers the developers' favorite 20%.

I Will test eagle..

Also try DipTrace. I'm a fan of KiCad as well, but it's definitely not as professional.

In my not so humble opinion gEDA sucks ass, but you could try that too.

Everything else is expensive, unless I've forgotten something.

[AlfBaz]

"Easy and intuitive" is for children's toys.

"Easy and intuitive" and "powerful" are not required to be mutually exclusive.

Unfortunately the developers of interfaces for the "powerful" EDA software for some reason decided that they are.

Unfortunately, Powerful = options...options...options...options... != "Easy and intuitive"
If in the software development world the spun off an interface designer category then, said Interface Designer should never of heard of an unsigned int

[sleemanj]

Unfortunately, Powerful = options...options...options...options... != "Easy and intuitive"

Only if the interface is poorly developed. 

If in the software development world the spun off an interface designer category then, said Interface Designer should never of heard of an unsigned int

Yes, this is the main problem, the interfaces for EDA software (any not just EDA there are some other areas which suffer the same fate) have pretty much been developed along-the-way by the programmers and the people who are already familiar with the software, which invariably leads to silly interfaces built on multiple layers of inside knowledge requiring a lot of investment from a new person in time and learning to just get functional in using the software and "used" to the arcane interfaces.

"Of course to do X you must press CTRL-SHIFT-Y, hold the mouse button for 2 seconds, drag to the left, raise your right leg and sing god save the queen, how can you not know that, it's so easy!"

[AlfBaz]

"Of course to do X you must press CTRL-SHIFT-Y, hold the mouse button for 2 seconds, drag to the left, raise your right leg and sing god save the queen, how can you not know that, it's so easy!"

So funny, because it's so true

[c4757p]

"Of course to do X you must press CTRL-SHIFT-Y, hold the mouse button for 2 seconds, drag to the left, raise your right leg and sing god save the queen, how can you not know that, it's so easy!"

Of course! I've been trying to figure out how to rewrap a paragraph in emacs for months!

Thank you!

By the way, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" does the same, but also converts all UK spellings to American. Quite useful

[peter.mitchell]

"Of course to do X you must press CTRL-SHIFT-Y, hold the mouse button for 2 seconds, drag to the left, raise your right leg and sing god save the queen, how can you not know that, it's so easy!"

Of course! I've been trying to figure out how to rewrap a paragraph in emacs for months!

Thank you!

By the way, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" does the same, but also converts all UK spellings to American. Quite useful

emacs is a nice operating system, but what text editor were you using?

[c4757p]

vim, of course.