Does anyone use Circuit Maker here?

I have made a few extra valve models for the .sub files and will be happy to share them with you

Triodes:
6DJ8/6922
6N1P
12AX7A (Duncan Munro's low Va corrected model converted to CM 3f4 spice)
Working on 12AT7

Tetrodes/Pentodes (Duncan Munro's models converted to CM 3f4 spice):
6CH6
EL34
EL84
6146

Wanna send them to me again Gregg? I forget to back up the ones you sent me before, before I formatted :-\

PM'd ya

As extension to the original question of this topic, I would like to ask what the experiences are with CircuitMaker ? It looked like a nice tool but I find it hard to use the router, somehow I can't get it to work. I have several options for PCB tools but I think Circuit Maker is a nice option. Any thoughts on the pro's and con's?

- Jorgen

You mean the router from schematic to PCB?

I couldn't tell you, as I have never used it

I have heard from many of my fellows that they use Eagle for that. However, it doesn't have default valves. You'd have to add them manually to the partslist.

As a "tubehead", I tend to do the schematic and Spice on CM Student version, then do a breadboard "tweak" layout. What Spice says may sound good and my ears say sounds good is very often two different matters

After that, I drill good ol' chassis.

However, I will be using it in the future for some SS projects planned. I'll let you know what I find ;D

Another good place for an answer to that question is nntp://sci.electronics.cad - good helpful (if impatient) bunch over there.

Good luck!

Hi!

I use Circuit Maker!
I even use Trax Maker for a long time! Cool program!

Can you send me your models, please!

business@bamba.lt

E-mail's on its way ;D

I was one of the beta testers for CM2000. CM is terrible, but it is the best that is out there right now. Eagle is far too difficult to learn, and the interface is not intuitive in the least.

Understand a couple of things with the CM/TM package:

1. Customer support is nonexistant. You can call and get all the promises in the world, but you will not get one iota of help.

2. The autoroute routine is slow and buggy, but once you understand that it will take overnight to route a moderately complex board, it isn't all that bad.

3. Circuitmaker will destroy your file if you forget and leave the Adobe pdf maker as the default printer when you exit the program.

Jim

Yeep! I haven't noticed that on CM Student.

As for support, the people at Altium were great with me. I have a bug that they never heard of before and still isn't quite fixed. We must've exchanged ten e-mails and I got the first response in 48 hours and the subsequent responses within the hour of them being sent. ???

Maybe tha's the trick - go DIRECT to Altium like I did, rather than the default CGI form.....

As for the TM, I have heard it is buggy and have yet to try it on mine. Mind you, kinda hard methinks to tell it, "OK, we are turning you into a punched chassis router today"

Can I please have these tube models too?

This post has been edited by ger2 on October 25, 2010 01:43 pm

Geek doesn't hang around here anymore, but he can be found at his forum:
http://geek.scorpiorising.ca/index.html
Or you can e-mail him from the Contact page.

Tim

Thanks!

This post has been edited by ger2 on October 26, 2010 07:40 am