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From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave
McLaughlin Sent: 22 June 2012 18:19 To:
AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [AVR-Chat] artwork
for touch wheel 

> Have you done any yourself Tim?
> 
> Would also be interested to hear from anyone else who has
> use the QTouch 
> Studio with any of the AVR devices that it supports?

Hi Dave
Yes, we've done a couple of projects with the Altium qtouch system and the Atmel Qtouch studio.

The Altium system works well and saves a lot of time over the old "copper drawing" method. Finally a new feature in Altium Designer that I actually find useful!!

I found integrating the output from qtouch studio into the software a bit of a challenge. It basically outputs a list of parameters for you to paste into the library code, but doesn't tell you where to paste them. Like all Atmel example code it's got an unfathomable amount of macro abstraction, trying to find out exactly what a macro/function does can be near impossible. The easiest way to do it is to start with one of their example programs, but the directory structure they provide is a bit convoluted and takes some time to unravel into something sensible.

The new Atmel Studio 6 has supposedly got Qtouch studio integrated, but when I try to use it, it only seems to support a couple of devices, I'm not sure why this is. So I used the older stand-alone Qtouch studio.


-- 
Tim Mitchell