19 Dec
2015
19 Dec
'15
8:24 a.m.
On 12/19/2015 9:33 AM, Todd Goodman 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.
Todd
I settled on and used KiCAD for both the schematic and PCB layout for my
Mark-8 project and a couple of other smaller boards, after looking at
AutoTrax (DeX), DesignSpark and DipTrace. I actually installed and
tried AutoTrax and DesignSpark.
I had no problems at all with KiCAD, really. Open source, open ended.
Had no issues sending the boards off to be fabricated, etc.
JRJ
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.
I'm a little concerned they won't provide
the degree of control or
finesse I like
Well, you'll have to try it and see, but it's pretty customizable: they
provide libraries of common components, but it has a nice component editor
for drawing up new ones (or customizing the ones it comes with).
Component location and line routing (in the schematic capture) are manual,
but it's grid-based, so things line up.
Noel