Hi, this is my first post. I've been laying out PCBs for a few years. --- In [email protected], Robert <birmingham_spi...@...> wrote:
After a day of using such a package I'm generally absolutely furious, which does nothing for the quality of my work. I'm producing boards far more professionally with kicad than I ever did with a commercial product, and that is almost entirely down to the kicad UI. It isn't perfect, but at least it largely follows current practice. Footprints I can fix easily; fixing the UI is rather more difficult. This is what I have been thinking. I've gotten familiar with PADS and Cadence at couple different companies over the past 2-3 years. I had the opportunity to try other packages like Eagle, and found this open source beauty. My current position usually uses Cadence for everything, and KiCad is like a breath of fresh air. I'm glad the engineer is slowly coming around to creating schematics with it. I love the minimal framework and the UI. It doesn't get in my way and I can get work done. I can feel the weight of 3 decades on the other packages. Thanks Jean-Pierre Charras (and of course everyone else) for making this available to me. Dave
