[sdiy] PCB/Schematic software

[Eric Brombaugh]

On 08/31/2011 12:20 PM, Tim Parkhurst wrote:
> I'll put in a vote for KiCAD. It has it's quirks, but it is easy to
> use, generates very nice output, and it's free. I've used it for all
> my Magic Smoke boards. Not sure whether it'll take an LTspice netlist
> though. That would be a cool feature if it did.

Another vote for KiCAD on Windows. Fairly easy to come up to speed on 
it, and it has a full set of tools 
(schematic/symbol/footprint/layout/BOM/etc).

I've seen FreePCB for Windows but don't know enough about it to make a 
meaningful comparison. Looks like it doesn't have a schematic editor and 
must import netlists generated elsewhere.

Eric