Timeline for A decent library of component simulation, schematic and PCB layout?
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| Nov 16, 2012 at 21:30 | vote | accept | Nakedible | ||
| Nov 15, 2012 at 17:06 | comment | added | AngryEE | Part of the problem is there's no standard. The closest thing is OrCAD - nice large parts library, but too expensive for hobby use. Sparkfun and LadyAda do what you suggest - but only for Eagle. While Eagle is popular it costs a non-zero amount and isn't open-source (although the design files are now open). The totally free packages rely on volunteers to create libraries. You are one of those volunteers now. Congratulations! | |
| Nov 15, 2012 at 14:18 | comment | added | Nakedible | I am wondering if this is a culture difference. Coming from the software side, this really sounds absurd, as many companies there share freely the tools they use as the tools are not really assets they can sell. Part libraries sound exactly the kind of thing where sharing nets more benefits than keeping it all in-house. | |
| Nov 15, 2012 at 1:21 | comment | added | Michael Karas | @Nakedible -- About all I can say here is "welcome to the real world of engineering". | |
| Nov 15, 2012 at 1:19 | comment | added | Michael Karas | @apalopohapa - Awesomely good answer. | |
| Nov 15, 2012 at 0:33 | history | edited | apalopohapa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2012 at 0:01 | comment | added | Some Hardware Guy | Maybe but I get paid for that effort :) Seriously though not everyone creates a part in the same way often you need to move pins around or conform to different standards. Also a lot of times the vendors don't want the liability of giving you an incorrect symbol, or the hassle of going back and updating and maintaining a huge set of libraries for all the different tools and versions out there. | |
| Nov 14, 2012 at 23:41 | comment | added | Nakedible | It seems very counter intuitive, that even if I'm doing something very basic, that I need to add the components to the library by myself. I mean, that must be a huge number of wasted hours of effort across the globe when everybody reimplements the same component. | |
| Nov 14, 2012 at 22:55 | comment | added | Nakedible | The scope is very narrow in my case, the boards are going to be 10-20 components max. | |
| Nov 14, 2012 at 22:52 | history | answered | apalopohapa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |