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by etimberg 709 days ago
Very cool project. Way back in the day I was on the team that built https://www.multisim.com/ so I've got some experience in EDA tool design.

A couple of things that I noticed at first:

1. Placing components is rather annoying. I tried to drag and drop but placing in the center of the view makes them hard to find 2. Automatic wire routing routed wires on top of symbols and component pins 3. Delete should be wired up to the delete key as well 4. By wiring pin to pin but overlapping wires it can appear that things are electrically connected when they're not if the routing places wires on top of each other

I liked how the delete cascades work. It usually takes a lot of patience to figure that logic out correctly

2 comments

Thanks for your feedback! I think an EDA tool is much harder too implement.

1. Drag and drop is a really useful feature! Thanks for your advice. I use it everyday and not notice the annoying. 2. Automatic wire routing is a feature I try to improve in the future. 3. No problem. 4. Wire interconnection is an issue. I will think more about how to represent it.

Overall, thanks you very much. You feedback is really useful for me.

I already added drag and drop feature! Welcome to try it!