[sdiy] Free CAD

[Thomas Strathmann]

On 2/21/11 21:09 , Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> I agree completely about Eagle. I found use of Eagle is painful in the extreme and no-one should ever be made to use if for anything, least of all drawing circuits.

I've used Eagle to draw some circuits and while I could imagine that 
other software packages do better in some respected, I very much doubt 
that any of them would make me a whole lot happier overall, especially 
since Eagle works well on Mac OS and GNU/Linux, the easy availability 
makes it trivial to share schematics with other people, I can hand in 
Eagle files (among others) to the local electronics store to make PCBs, 
and the free version has been sufficient for my needs. Not that I draw 
many schematics for posterity anyway.

But I have no strong feelings about any of the points that some people 
who might use these tools commercially or for more than a little hobby 
stuff care about. Besides, if I want to draw a quick schematic I use a 
pencil and a sheet of paper or if it's part of a LaTeX document I'll use 
circuitikz anyway.

	Thomas

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Thomas S. Strathmann                            http://pdp7.org/blog/