- Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:08 pm
#137327
Is it just me is Eagle (and KiCad after playing with it for a few minutes) just kind of garbage when it comes to an intuitive user interface? Simple things I've just become used to as a Windows user just doesn't exist. Doesn't it make since that you could just select a part out of one libary, ctrl-c to copy it and ctrl-v to put it in some other library you have selected?
So it takes 10 minutes for me to get a part out of one library with a to-220-5 package into my own library. Now, should be easy enough to change that part name right? HAHAH. No really, something so basic as this and it's obfuscated beyond belief.
So I select my Library, then I select the Library menu, Rename. Hmm, nothing appears to happen. Oh now I see, in small text at the bottom it says type in the device to rename. WTF? You can't populate a little list with all the Devices in the currently selected library?
I realize the tool is uber powerful and once I learn all these little things I won't be so frustrated but for the time being I can't figure out why CadSoft has made such a crap user interface?
Are other tools like Altium this un-intuitive from a UI perspective? I'd claim "you get what you pay for" since I am using the Freeware but the UI is the same for the same tool they are charging $1000+ for (but I guess maybe that is cheap in the EDA world, huh?)
So it takes 10 minutes for me to get a part out of one library with a to-220-5 package into my own library. Now, should be easy enough to change that part name right? HAHAH. No really, something so basic as this and it's obfuscated beyond belief.
So I select my Library, then I select the Library menu, Rename. Hmm, nothing appears to happen. Oh now I see, in small text at the bottom it says type in the device to rename. WTF? You can't populate a little list with all the Devices in the currently selected library?
I realize the tool is uber powerful and once I learn all these little things I won't be so frustrated but for the time being I can't figure out why CadSoft has made such a crap user interface?
Are other tools like Altium this un-intuitive from a UI perspective? I'd claim "you get what you pay for" since I am using the Freeware but the UI is the same for the same tool they are charging $1000+ for (but I guess maybe that is cheap in the EDA world, huh?)