[sdiy] PCB/Schematic software

[Harry Bissell]

Neil pointed out to me that DesignSpark "seems to be Easy Cad with custom libraries made for it"

Design spark allows schematic capture. So maybe EasyCad does schematics as well, although it looked to me
like it didn't (as well).

I'll have to try them out. I usually don't do 'simple' PCBs so I'd hate to be wrong...  :^)

H^) harry

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net>
To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Sent: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:29:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [sdiy] PCB/Schematic software

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
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