[ML-General] KiCad software gets the CERN treatment

[Stephan Henning]

Ya, it has a long way to go to reach the levels of Altium, Cadence, and the
other big packages.

I've not used eagle a whole lot, I tend to exceed the freeware limitation
very quickly. From what I remember, eagle is a little easier to use.

I think an interface overhaul for KiCAD to make the menus and option more
intuitive for newcomers would be very useful.



That's something that could be an interesting class for the shop though,
intro to KiCAD: Schematic Capture and Circuit Layout.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:42 PM, James Fluhler <j.fluhler at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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