kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[xarx@xxxxxx]

Hello Andy,

what you are saying really interests me. 

> Regarding integrating any kind of simulation tool into the mainline PCB
design
> package, I suggest the following: DONT BOTHER.

I'm not an EE professional, I'm an EE hobbyist. And my ideal tool would allow
me to draw a schema and allow me to copy it to a document or to publish it to
internet. And then by extending it a little bit I could use the same schema
for simulations (which may then force me to modify the schema and publish it
again). And when I'm satisfied, then I would amend the schema with new
information (without the necessity to draw and maintain another copy of it)
and use it for Pcb creation. I don't know whether there are any quirks when
performing this workflow in large scale, but in an amateur scale I see no
problems with that. KiCad allows one to omit selected components from netlist
exports, or from Pcb creation, or from both.

Concerning LTSpiceIV, I found it an excelent simulator with a terrible editor.
That's why I wouldn't mind editing netlists for LTSpice somewhere else - in
KiCad :-) But for now I'm happily using KiCad + NgSpice.

So, perhaps your way and purpose of using the tools is different from mine?

       Martin.

______________________________________________________________________
Vystup z řady a zřiď si taky originální email! @bigboss.cz, @dablik.cz, @potvurka.cz, @tajny.cz... zdarma na http://email.sms.cz
COMDOM Antispam - www.comdomsoft.com