Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

previous by date index next by date
previous in topic topic list next in topic

Subject: Re: Newbie to list

From: "Wayne C. Gramlich" <Wayne@...>
Date: 2006-12-25

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Wayne C. Gramlich" <Wayne@...>
wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Question for the list - what's a good or great but free circuit
> > drawing program for Windows (XP down to 3.11) or DOS out there I can
> > download? Linux of course is another option if it has an x86 version
> > or even a Power PC version as I have an old AIX based IBM server I
> > can use too.
>
> KiCAD is multi platform (Linux, Windows, etc.) and has no
> size restrictions (like EagleCAD.):

Oops, I should clarify. The free version of EagleCAD:

<http://www.cadsoftusa.com/>

is the one that has size restrictions of 4" x 3.2") and
one sheet of schematic capture. The professional version
has no such restrictions. Lot's of people use it 'tho.

> <http://kicad.sourceforge.net/en/index.shtml>
>
> For a 'nix only solution:
>
> <http://www.geda.seul.org/>
>
> The gEDA stuff has been around longer, KiCAD seems pretty
> functional to me.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> -Wayne
>