Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
- Subject: Re: [OT] Mac CAD software
- From: Courtney Schwartz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:00:54 -0400
On Oct 18, 2004, at 8:02 PM, John C. Welch wrote:
On 10/18/04 2:57 PM, "Johnny AppleScript" <email@hidden>
wrote:
To add on to what Chris said, there's a world of difference between
creating
a drawing of a circuit diagram , and a circuit diagram that is
something
more functional than a drawing.
I haven't looked at the stuff for a few years now, but doesn't NI
LabVIEW
have a variant that allows you to build (virtual) functional
electrical
circuits and test them? Not sure if it can then do an actual board
layout or
not, but I think whoever asked about electronics testing in the first
place
did not specify layout, only design, and request AppleScript support,
which
LabVIEW (there are many different products from NI) has (had, anyway).
LabVIEW is an interesting one. I'm not that experienced with it so I
don't
know how good it is as a circuit simulator, but I imagine it would be
as
good at it as anything else.
A friend of mine does nothing but complain about the limits of LabView
all day. He works with high-powered lasers; apparently they use LabView
because it has the drivers to operate said lasers. However, he says
that it doesn't have recursion, he's found a test case where 0
evaluates to 1 (!!!), and their idea of "object-oriented" is to have a
bunch of graphical boxes that you drag around while "programming".
His solution in many cases was to learn enough C++ to roll his own, or
to correct LabView behavior.
Doesn't sound very promising to me.
(Plus, they're an all-Windows lab... no idea if LabView has a Mac
version.)
Courtney Schwartz
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