What schematic editor does pedalpcb use?

[kaomao]

Hi
I was wondering what editor you use to create your schematics.
Looks great and clear.

Cheers

 

[Robert]

DipTrace.

 

[evitative]

DipTrace.

Which package have you found to be adequate for pedal design? (Starter, Lite, Standard, etc.)

 

[Robert]

Lite is more than enough for most projects... I've only run into a few cases where more than 500 pins were necessary.
The majority of the circuits here could probably even be done on the Starter edition.

 

[kaomao]

Gre

DipTrace.

Great! Thanks!
I'm not a big fan of Eagle or Kicad, I wanted to try some alternatives
The only one that I found to be very easy and fast to use for designs is EasyEDA

 

[evitative]

Lite is more than enough for most projects... I've only run into a few cases where more than 500 pins were necessary.
The majority of the circuits here could probably even be done on the Starter edition.

All your boards are two layer then, with one being a ground plane?

 

[Robert]

They're two layer, but there is typically a ground plane on each side. I don't dedicate an entire layer to the ground plane.

 

[chongmagic]

Do you use your own library, I have been trying to learn it but some of the components are hard to find such as the positive and negative inputs and grounds.

 

[Robert]

I started out by converting the Madbean Eagle libraries to DipTrace, but over the years have added/modified/replaced components as needed.

 

[chongmagic]

Is it easy to convert from Eagle to Diptrace?

 

[kaomao]

if you want a ready to use library check this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9622htc2f7ptq4d/rullywow diptrace library 3.25.15.zip?dl=0
Found it yesterday

 

[Robert]

Yep, that's a good one. Rully did basically the same thing I did.

 

[chongmagic]

I have tried that one and some of the pads are wonky.

 

[kaomao]

I have tried that one and some of the pads are wonky.

I don't know for me they work as expected
Can you pin point what components are messy?

 

[chongmagic]

The positive, ground, sw pads.