On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Mcgee, Mark wrote:

>> Which "student" version do you have?
>> The slightly earlier Pspice 8.0 is reputed to be somewhat
>> more friendly
>> than the latest version which I think is Orcad based wrt the schematic
>> capture.
> I have the latest OrCAD offering.  I'm getting along reasonably well, but it's
> far from intuative - I guess you need to know what you're doing with it!!
>
>> PCB layout is best left to a dedicated program like eagle. It
> Yep, I downloaded Eagle a few weeks back, but found that to be incredibly
> unintuitive, and I had no idea how to drive the program at all.  Maybe I'll
> have another play.

I found eagle reasonably easy to learn *after* I read the manual and a 
quick intro written by someone (on the web). I say *after* because before 
that attempts to click my way through the program before reading up failed 
miserably. I think that eagle was born command-mode and the gui was added 
afterwards (autocad is the same afaik). Once you understand how it works 
it's reasonaby easy to use.

Peter
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