[ML-General] Which (free) Linux electrical cad software?

[Erik Arendall]

I have used Eagle and KiCAD before.
Eagle has a lot of publicly available part libraries, both from Sparkfun
and Adafruit.
Kicad not so much, but CERN has started supporting Kicad so that is cool.
Hopefully they will add more features to it moving forward.
Both are good packages, just depends on what time you want to spend. If you
want to get started quickly, might look at Eagle.

Erik
On Dec 24, 2015 11:47 AM, "clayton pannell" <clayton.pannell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't think there's anything out there that accomplishes that. Closest
> thing I can think of is Solidworks Electrical ($$$$) but it lacks
> simulation.
>
> Faced with the same situation I'd use KiCAD for schematic capture and
> label the crap out of everything and use falstad circuit sim if the
> analysis is rudimentary or one of the many spice variants.
>
> The only free/opensource thing I can think of to do full color wiring and
> harness diagrams would be Inkscape and a metric assload of time. It is a
> very nice vectorgraphics package but you'll be drawing every component,
> wire, etc. by "hand" and it has a fairly steep learning curve.
> On Dec 24, 2015 10:30 AM, "Michael Spiceland" <mspiceland at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've used Eagle for many a project over many years with great results.
>> It doesn't have the most intuitive UX IMHO, but after watching/reading a
>> few tutorials, it is easy to use and has an efficient workflow.
>>
>> Michael Spiceland
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Chris Hunt <vashvs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here is a more direct link to the freeware version:
>>> http://www.cadsoftusa.com/download-eagle/freeware/
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Chris Hunt <vashvs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> During an interview with Sanmina SCI, they described "Eagle."  See url:
>>>> http://www.cadsoftusa.com/eagle-pcb-design-software/about-eagle/
>>>> They mentioned it having a free hobbyist version, and is very powerful.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Tim H <crashcartpro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I use "GEDA" for building circuits and pcbs, but will admit that it
>>>>> has almost NONE of the features you've requested. (never trust the
>>>>> autorouter)
>>>>> "KiCAD" has more active development, and may have some of those
>>>>> features at this point.
>>>>> I agree with Josh though, "Fritzing" is probably going to be the
>>>>> prettiest and easiest to use of the bunch.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Tim
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Joshua Pritt <ramgarden at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> http://fritzing.org/home/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:51 AM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd like to document some circuits.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Part A is block diagrams with a name for each block and maybe a
>>>>>>> place to
>>>>>>> write it's function in text.  Color support for the interconnects
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> be nice.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Part B is maybe a Spice-like circuit analysis, drawn from the block
>>>>>>> diagram level and drill down to each individual IC and component.  it
>>>>>>> would be great if it has a library of IC's and components with their
>>>>>>> electrical characteristics available.  Thermocouples are involved, as
>>>>>>> well as their analog voltages being measured and converted into an
>>>>>>> I2C
>>>>>>> signal for reading by a Beaglebone Black or Raspberry Pi 2.  Color
>>>>>>> support (and stripes) for the actual wires would be very nice.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rubber banding of wiring and connections is mandatory.  :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So what do you guys suggest so that I may make pretty documents for
>>>>>>> these circuits?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> David Merchant
>>>>>>>
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