EAGLE is honestly probably your best bet, as it's a nice and fairly
standard program that does everything you probably need, but if you
want an open source solution, there's the gEDA project that combines a
whole bunch of tools for electronics engineering automation:
http://www.gpleda.org/index.html
It includes programs for schematic capture (designing the circuit),
circuit simulation (digital, analog, and mixed), board layout, parts
databases, FPGA stuff, etc. It's sort of a loosely-coupled set of
programs that can be made to work together, so there's more up-front
learning and command-line processing to do. But at the end, you've
probably got a lot more power at your disposal than you do with the
free version of EAGLE, and it meets your hard requirement of drawing a
schematic as well as your desire for a gerber file to send to a board
manufacturer or a local machine if you want to etch/mill a board
yourself.
--Levi
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Ryan Byrd <[email protected]> wrote:
> The EAGLE Light Edition can be used for free!
> http://www.cadsoftusa.com/freeware.htm
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:17 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Does anyone have experience with some of the various circuit design
>> tools out there?
>> I just need something to help me draw a schematic, but it would be
>> nice if it could generate a printable circuit trace from the schematic
>> too.
>>
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