I agree heartily. I have been a PCB engineer since 1987, and I have
used most every single package available including the biggies like
OrCad and Mentor. KiCad can stantd with them all. And I cant believe
its free!
Thanks Jean-Pierre Charras and crew!
On 6/15/2010 2:22 AM, buyfromdavid wrote:
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
