19 Dec
2015
19 Dec
'15
10:12 a.m.
On Dec 19, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Todd Goodman <tsg at
bonedaddy.net> wrote:
* Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> [151218 17:38]:
Not to mention it's open source so if you don't like the control you
have you can always change it as desired.
Thanks for the pointers, I'm going to check those out. I've been a user
(occasional user) of Eagle CAD for years now. It's a pretty good program; the only
thing I've missed is split planes. Perhaps those have been added more recently, I
haven't looked.
Some years ago I ran into an open source PCB layout program that had an interesting
approach to routing, yielding curvy looking traces instead of the more typical straight
lines and corners. Forgot the name, will see if I can find it again.
paul
From:
Brent Hilpert
I need to move to something newer but I
haven't evaluated current
schematic-drawing programs
Dave Bridgham got me started with KiCAD, and that seems like a pretty good
system to me. It has separate sub-systems for schematic capture; circuitry
checking; netlist generation; PCB layout; etc, etc. I've only worked with the
first three, but it seemed pretty good for them....