[HBR] Progess report and 50:1 drive idea

[Mike Hanz]

Walt said:
>  For comparison I also have designworks lite installed and as long as
>  it prints in black on white, I can deal with it drawing the screen in
>  other colors. Everything there seems to work. However the library
>  uses modern symbols, invented, I suspect, because modern engineers
>  never learned to draw the older ones. So getting going with that
>  means at least doing the resistor over correctly. Does anyone know
>  how to delete unwanted parts of the library? There are hundreds of
>  ICs and such that you have to scroll through. If I wanted 'modern'
>  I'd buy it at Wal-Mart, $39.98 (Price Rollback!) from Bangladesh.


It's easy to delete the unwanted items, Walt.  Not sure what you mean by 
modern, as the set in my software has normal resistor zigzags and the 
like.  Perhaps yours is a later version.  Anyway, the libraries are all 
separate - toobs, resistors, etc.  Right click on the particular library 
in the selection window on the right side of the screen and then click 
on "lib maintenance".  You can delete unwanted symbols or batches of 
symbols at will (or transfer them to another library if desired.)

I really like the ability to easily edit the symbols to match the "old" 
1950's way of showing them, and the drag & drop makes schematic drawing 
pretty quick once you get the hang of it.  It just takes a little 
practice.  The individual tubes like 6V6 and 12AX7 have file areas that 
you can populate with tube characteristics and the like.  The different 
colors available (you can change them all to black if desired) helps 
subsequent circuit tracing if you do that sort of thing on the monitor.

Not sure it comes from Walmart or Bangladesh (the full version costs 
$395 instead of $39.95) but it certainly has a lot more power than the 
other programs I've tried.  To each his own....

73,

 - Mike