Trying to pick up KiCAD (circuit diagram / PCB layout software) and it's already pretty clear that learning the workflow is gonna be a lot more challenging than actually laying stuff out.
@starkatt ah, alright then! we heard digikey provides libraries for it now, too, which might be handy or could be awful, couldn't say
@Felthry I already drew my first part symbol! :D
@starkatt something we found very handy: get a "gaming mouse" with lots of extra buttons and bind hotkeys to mouse buttons
@Felthry ooh I already have one of those, very good idea. Suggestions for most commonly used keys?
@starkatt I would suggest multiple profiles as you'll want one for schematic editing and one for pcb layout at least
for us, the "draw wire", "place part", "rotate part", and "cancel" keys were the best to mouseify
likewise on pcbnew, "route trace", "rotate part", "new fill zone", "increase/decrease trace size" were pretty handy
@starkatt I forget the exact keys we bound because we got a new mouse and have never gotten around to rebinding them to the new mouse (which has fewer buttons)
@Felthry y'know this software seems surprisingly good.
@starkatt It's _very_ good
and let me tell you we've also used mentorgraphics PADS which is professional software that costs something like $5k for a single license and it's. bad. very bad. by comparison
@Felthry Also good news, I can basically duplicate the circuit of Adafruit's lipo charger since they use the same IC.
I already own a couple of those chargers :)
@starkatt What IC in particular?
@Felthry https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/MCP73831T-2ACI%2fOT/MCP73831T-2ACI%2fOTCT-ND/1979802/ which was actually linked by you a while back.
@starkatt ah! that was just a random cheap charger IC I found, glad to hear it meets your needs!
@Felthry @starkatt I'll second @faynefluff, but I also have to /glare/ at Cadence. All the big IP firms are awful. D:
@Felthry Digikey has a tutorial series that seems pretty good, I just gotta make adjustments for it being a few versions out of date.