Feature is not ready yet??
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Desktop Version beta version
A download link for this will be available soon.
We hope you enjoy the new version!
And as always, if you have any questions or suggestions, do let us know.@andyfierman
I appreciate the humor of that comment, Mr. Fierman and of course I understand.
I'm a programmer, I do advanced user interface work like this all the time, and I have to say, this is excellent. I'd be willing to pay for a desktop version of the software, if only to remove the various limitations on simulations you have in place to prevent server overloading. As a beginner in electronics, I find myself simulating all the time - so I've noticed that you guys have been removing simulatable components, reducing the maximum iterations, reducing the maximum steps depending on cpu load, etc... and I don't blame you. But MAN would I like to be able to use this thing unthrottled.
I'd pay for a desktop version, or I'd pay for a yearly subscription for unthrottled online. Will the desktop beta be ready soon?
Hi Johnmayqwerty,
Welcome to EasyEDA.
You are right about load that simulation places on the server.
* May I suggest an alternative simulation solution that does not require the Desktop version to be available?
EasyEDA is designed to be able to import flat (i.e. not hierarchical) LTspice schematics in .asc file format.
Although it is possible, with several caveats, to run simulations on imported LTspice schematics, the primary use for this function is to be able to import an LTspice schematic, strip out the simulation only parts and easily add the stuff that tends to be left out of simulation schematics such as connectors, switches, device PCB footprints and BoM information and then pass the schematic through into PCB layout.
(The BoM information you can add in EasyEDA is way ahead of the basic information that LTspice supports.)
In fact LTspice is a "better" simulator than Ngspice as used in EasyEDA and of course it runs on your local machine so is not restricted by any cloud issues.
(There is a whole discussion about what constitutes "better" but that's not the point here.)
So what this means is that you create and run your simulation schematics locally in LTspice and then, when you are ready to move to adding the necessary information to create a PCB, import the .asc file straight into EasyEDA and proceed from there as if you had created the schematic in there to begin with.
* I can support you in using LTspice and EasyEDA in this way.
There is an example of project based on an imported LTspice schematic (where most of the simulation was done in LTspice but it will also run in EasyEDA) here:
https://easyeda.com/example/Uberclamp_simulation-RzsmgyQ8q
and which was turned into a non-simulation schematic, BoM and PCB here:
https://easyeda.com/example/Uberclamp_Schematic_PCB_and_BoM-r4YgysK2k
As I said earlier, the LTspice schematic has to be flat because EasyEDA cannot import the underlying levels in a hierarchical LTspice schematic.
Although import works OK with most standard LTspice symbols, at present it is not possible to import LTspice .asy symbol files, which means that some user defined symbols may have to be recreated in EasyEDA. Hopefully that will be fixed soon.
LTspice is not Open Source but it is free and runs natively on OSX and Windows as well as pretty much seamlessly on Linux using WINE.
You can get LTspice here:
http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/#LTspice
Both LTspiceXVII and the older LTspiceIV run in Linux using WINE.
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