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Adam Haun
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I seem to be a bit late to the party, but I did play with SystemVision for a bit and I have some feedback.

  • Drawing a schematic is actually pretty smooth. I find it somewhat less clunky than CircuitLab.

  • The error message are much more helpful than they are in Circuit Lab.

  • The abstract blocks could be very helpful for system-level questions. Circuit Lab doesn't have PID blocks or three-phase transforms.

  • Being able to put a waveform directly on the schematic is nice.

  • I don't see any way to have both a reference designator and a part number. This is a show-stopper. Fixing this could be as simple as adding a second text label. (Per Olin's post, the default part number should be blank.)

  • The waveform viewer doesn't update automatically when I rerun the simulation. This is confusing. There should be something to indicate that a waveform is old.

  • The "ideal" op amp defaults to a gain-bandwidth product of 1 MHz and an output resistance of 100 ohms. This could confuse college students trying to simulate their homework.

  • Clicking and dragging to move the schematic around is extremely laggy. So is zooming. (I have a 3.5 GHz Core i7 3770k with 16 gigs of RAM, so I'm pretty sure it's not me.) This is using Firefox with three tabs open.

  • I don't see a way to save a waveform as an image. I suppose I can just take a screenshot, so I'll call this a nice-to-have feature.

Overall, I like it and I think it would be a good addition to the site. I'd probably use it more than Circuit Lab if the part number issue (and lack of text annotation) were fixed.

I seem to be a bit late to the party, but I did play with SystemVision for a bit and I have some feedback.

  • Drawing a schematic is actually pretty smooth. I find it somewhat less clunky than CircuitLab.

  • The error message are much more helpful than they are in Circuit Lab.

  • The abstract blocks could be very helpful for system-level questions. Circuit Lab doesn't have PID blocks or three-phase transforms.

  • Being able to put a waveform directly on the schematic is nice.

  • I don't see any way to have both a reference designator and a part number. This is a show-stopper. Fixing this could be as simple as adding a second text label. (Per Olin's post, the default part number should be blank.)

  • The waveform viewer doesn't update automatically when I rerun the simulation. This is confusing. There should be something to indicate that a waveform is old.

  • The "ideal" op amp defaults to a gain-bandwidth product of 1 MHz and an output resistance of 100 ohms. This could confuse college students trying to simulate their homework.

  • Clicking and dragging to move the schematic around is extremely laggy. So is zooming. (I have a 3.5 GHz Core i7 3770k, so I'm pretty sure it's not me.) This is using Firefox.

  • I don't see a way to save a waveform as an image. I suppose I can just take a screenshot, so I'll call this a nice-to-have feature.

Overall, I like it and I think it would be a good addition to the site. I'd probably use it more than Circuit Lab.

I seem to be a bit late to the party, but I did play with SystemVision for a bit and I have some feedback.

  • Drawing a schematic is actually pretty smooth. I find it somewhat less clunky than CircuitLab.

  • The error message are much more helpful than they are in Circuit Lab.

  • The abstract blocks could be very helpful for system-level questions. Circuit Lab doesn't have PID blocks or three-phase transforms.

  • Being able to put a waveform directly on the schematic is nice.

  • I don't see any way to have both a reference designator and a part number. This is a show-stopper. Fixing this could be as simple as adding a second text label. (Per Olin's post, the default part number should be blank.)

  • The waveform viewer doesn't update automatically when I rerun the simulation. This is confusing. There should be something to indicate that a waveform is old.

  • The "ideal" op amp defaults to a gain-bandwidth product of 1 MHz and an output resistance of 100 ohms. This could confuse college students trying to simulate their homework.

  • Clicking and dragging to move the schematic around is extremely laggy. So is zooming. (I have a 3.5 GHz Core i7 3770k with 16 gigs of RAM, so I'm pretty sure it's not me.) This is using Firefox with three tabs open.

  • I don't see a way to save a waveform as an image. I suppose I can just take a screenshot, so I'll call this a nice-to-have feature.

Overall, I like it and I think it would be a good addition to the site. I'd probably use it more than Circuit Lab if the part number issue (and lack of text annotation) were fixed.

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Adam Haun
  • 22.7k
  • 11
  • 7

I seem to be a bit late to the party, but I did play with SystemVision for a bit and I have some feedback.

  • Drawing a schematic is actually pretty smooth. I find it somewhat less clunky than CircuitLab.

  • The error message are much more helpful than they are in Circuit Lab.

  • The abstract blocks could be very helpful for system-level questions. Circuit Lab doesn't have PID blocks or three-phase transforms.

  • Being able to put a waveform directly on the schematic is nice.

  • I don't see any way to have both a reference designator and a part number. This is a show-stopper. Fixing this could be as simple as adding a second text label. (Per Olin's post, the default part number should be blank.)

  • The waveform viewer doesn't update automatically when I rerun the simulation. This is confusing. There should be something to indicate that a waveform is old.

  • The "ideal" op amp defaults to a gain-bandwidth product of 1 MHz and an output resistance of 100 ohms. This could confuse college students trying to simulate their homework.

  • Clicking and dragging to move the schematic around is extremely laggy. So is zooming. (I have a 3.5 GHz Core i7 3770k, so I'm pretty sure it's not me.) This is using Firefox.

  • I don't see a way to save a waveform as an image. I suppose I can just take a screenshot, so I'll call this a nice-to-have feature.

Overall, I like it and I think it would be a good addition to the site. I'd probably use it more than Circuit Lab.