If you try both, you will quickly see that EasyEDA is the more polished product. Even without the silly cat motif, EasyEDA works most like a traditional package. The SPICE simulation doesn’t interest me much (hard to beat LTSpice, even if I have to run it in Wine). But the rest of the package, the documentation, and the overall look and feel of the system is superior, in my opinion, to MeowCAD. In either case, of course, you export Gerber files and schematic images, so you have some record of your design. EasyEDA will offer to create the boards for you (at a pretty low price, too). Like a paste opening shrink percentage would be appropriate rather than a hard dimension.That’s how they plan to sustain the Web site is through profits from producing boards. That affect an 0201 on the same board?' - An 0805 aperture size of approximately. 004' aperture shrink is about right for an 0805, how will Once weĭiscovered the cause of those issues, I started down the rabbit-hole of 'if a. 004' - this led to some negative aperture issues that I inquired about in another post.

There is an option to undersize the paste layerīy a given value, our default was. This has led us to some issues when creating our stencils. We use many different size components on our boards, everythingįrom 0805 down to 0201. Our company has recently brought our PCB assembly in-house. Maybe we'll see some of the old cobwebs get dusted out after their fascination with Differential Pairs has subsided. As you have witnessed, it's better to start from scratch. (Perhaps it's one of those 'invisible' gray elephants in the gray-walled development room?) I agree that it would be nice to be able to edit the spacing without having to select the entire pattern ( Ctrl+ A) and rotate ( Ctrl+ Alt+ R), flip the pads by exchanging the Width and Length values, renumber the pins that have magically received duplicate numbers and then redraw the silkscreen. KevinA wrote.My point is reuse, libraries are there for reuse but if altering a pad can not be done there is no reuse.The weird silkscreen distortion/movement problem while editing an existing pattern has been a DipTrace ' feature' for as long as I have been using it, and I am not aware of any official responses to past complaints about this.

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