Roger wrote:
apluscw wrote:
>
> Regarding KiCad, on more than one occasion I have questioned whether
> we made the right decision going with KiCad. We were burdened by the
> fact that we needed 3 seats and none of the "professional" packages
> were economically viable at that time.
>
> While I still have reservations, now that I am making a point to
> create every component in my own library before using things are
> flowing much, much better. There are still some
> bugs/features/strange behaviors that bother us, but it looks like it
> will be OK for schematic capture.
>
> Board layout, however, is a different matter. While we did an
> initial evaluation, it is still unproven in our eyes. If we
> outsourced the layout to someone who could do it in KiCad, then we
> would forever be able to tweak it if need be.
>
I second what has been said above, by your description it looks like a
long shot for KiCAD, people who specilise in that kind of work use EDA
packages that can calculate noise/emissions etc.
Price is not what you should be looking at when chossing EDA tools for
work. That might sound odd coming from someone like me who looked at
KiCAD when faced with a $1500 dollar bill for upgrading my commercial
package to go over 700 pins. But my boards are much simpler, they are 2
layer and just have lots of interface stuff (connecters, fuseholders,
relays etc that are modified to customer requirements. I miffed a bit at
paying for a package that included spice emulation and upto 6 layers or
whatever that I just did not need. In my line of work a more complicated
package could slow me down rather than speed me up!
I did however look at other low cost simple packages, to see if they
better suited my needs, and KiCAD does compare favourably. The fact that
it is OSS is a great bonus.
HI ALL
well KiCad will do the capture and the layout even ;)
i am trying ot implement in on my work and sofar no major problems or bugs
it is very very friendly and has all the basic and some advansed options
that would a CAD package need
i am not a Pro yet(still not an experienced) but think that Kicad is
much better than some comersial CAD systems
please correct me if wrong
i work in Bulgaria and here the electronics is a few years in the past
but i think that if u dont make anything very very spesial Kicad will do
;)
what is the board complexity u work on (number of pins ,layers
,clockspeed )?
send the netlist and .mod files
thow i am not experienced enought yet i am a wolf in sheepskin ;)
question
is it more complex than the videoboard example in Kicad?
will be glad to help u ;)
