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Because every CAD, which has traditionally been dominated by commercial solutions invents their own file format for lockin. On top of that semiconductor vendor
by delfinom 3y ago
Because every CAD, which has traditionally been dominated by commercial solutions invents their own file format for lockin.
On top of that semiconductor vendors don't want to hire people to draw symbols in every possible cad solution.
So you instead have them release symbols in some preferred tool, maybe they also outsource to third party services like UltraLibrarian. There problem with the third party services is they do the laziest conversions possible between format using scripting and often do a horrible job.
- lelanthran 3y ago> Because every CAD, which has traditionally been dominated by commercial solutions invents their own file format for lockin. This doesn't really explain why creators of new CAD programs (Horizon and LibrePCB are new) invent new data formats. We've seen time and time again, in every digital domain ever invented, that the most important thing is the dataset. It doesn't really matter how nice the library manager is if what it manages has limited availability - and no, asking for a community to pitch in and help with the duplicated work is not a solution. The solution is to pick the largest library and use its format.