[ML-General] KiCad software gets the CERN treatment

[James Fluhler]

I tried out kiCad today and it's on par with eagle seems like but a far cry from altium. It's a shame we can't see some of these cheaper editors come up with a product at least marginally comparable to a real PCB editor/schematic capture tool. 

James F.

> On Feb 17, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Stephan Henning <shenning at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ya, libraries are one of it's biggest weaknesses. 
> 
> It's not that bad to custom make a part, but it can get a little tedious. I also find it ends up creating a mess of files and locations in which things are stored. Still haven't quite figured out a good way to do that yet. 
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Erik Arendall <earendall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Its a great program, I do wish there was better component libraries.  There might be now since it has been a year or so since I messed with it.
>> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Stephan Henning <shenning at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Cool, I knew CERN was taking an active role in KiCAD, good to see them still pushing it. 
>>> 
>>> Hopefully KiCAD continues to grow without becoming overly complicated and cumbersome, I would hate to loose my favorite board editor. 
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Erik Arendall <earendall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Nifty
>>>> 
>>>> http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/02/kicad-software-gets-cern-treatment
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