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by blattimwind 2764 days ago
All EDA (and more generally, all CAD) software seems weird to use and requires significant time to "get used to it". E.g. Eagle (not really EDA in the grander sense, mostly just a drawing program) doesn't have many regular keyboard shortcuts, instead you type (heavily abbreviated) commands into its main command line. This is quite productive ... after a few weeks.
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janekm 2764 days ago
Try one of the Altium tools some time (they have a free one now afaik). Those are more "Photoshop weird" (any really complex software takes some time to grok) rather than "AutoCAD in 1995 weird" (a DOS ui dragged kicking and screaming into Windows).
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bsder 2764 days ago
> All EDA (and more generally, all CAD) software seems weird to use and requires significant time to "get used to it".

It boils down to the fact that the number of users of these programs is small.

In a CAD program, there are enough features that some feature has exactly one, or worse, zero users.

This means that the most used features gets streamlined over time, but everything else remains "quirky".

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