[sdiy] Anyone here use Kicad?

[Alex Iles]

Cool, sounds like it's worth checking out.
Thanks,
-ai
>
> I've used KiCAD for several PCBs, including all my Magic Smoke stuff.
> It has a few quirks, but overall it works very nicely. The most recent
> version is very good, and you certainly can't argue with the price! I
> don't use the 3D visualization capability (all my mechanical design is
> done in SolidWorks, so that's were I do any 3D stuff), but it creates
> Gerber files for board fabrication and EPS files that I use for
> documentation.
>
> One of my few gripes with the program is that some of the 'footprints'
> used in the schematic capture portion are flakey. Some that I've run
> across have hiddne power pins, or pins that generate 'not connected'
> errors even when I KNOW they're connected (and they connect just fine
> in the net list and PCB layout portions). I guess I could create my
> own footprints, but that's the part I've worked with the least.
>
> Tim (not connected) Servo