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It’s interesting that things weren’t so siloed then, that a draftsman could be an ad hoc PCB designer.
by pinewurst 7y ago
It’s interesting that things weren’t so siloed then, that a draftsman could be an ad hoc PCB designer.
- knolax 7y agoTBF a lot of what he did sounds like work that would be done by the autorouter on most electronics CAD today.
- rcxdude 7y agoAutorouting is still not generally used very much in PCB design. I suspect it could be used more than it currently is, but generally you spend a lot more time specifying design rules and the results are often quite poor.
- raverbashing 7y agos/siloed/high speed At today's circuits number of layers, speeds and frequencies it's impossible to do it by hand. Sure, you could train your average engineer to use Cadence/Mentor, etc but it's usually the design engineer that does capture and PCB routing.
- _wzsf 7y agoSlow != impossible.
- goatinaboat 7y agoDraftsman was always a skilled job, it was never about merely producing neat version of an engineers notes, such as a typist.