I have used the TinyCAD - FreePCB tool chain for personal educational and 
commerical projects and its worked great. Both are real stable in there latest 
versions. It takes a bit of work to get all your component parameters into 
TinyCAD the first time but once you sort it you will get netlists that import 
into FreePCB that need little correction. I have spent 2-3 hours with KiCAD and 
came to the concludsion I could use it but the changeover would be painfull. 
Maybe when some things I find combersome get redone. One thing that makes me 
shake my head in wonder is that tool where you associate the IC's to their 
footprint file, with TinyCAD you put the file name in the part attributes and 
its exported in the net list so FreePCB knows which to use, its a standard 
thing not a TinyCad-FreePCB. You would expect a intergrated solution to handle 
that a bit smoother. But I havnt give up on it and will continue to follow its 
development.

Mark  

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