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Get Ready For KiCAD 9! (hackaday.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A while back I was looking for a FOSS EDA and saw overwhelming support for Kicad, but some people reluctantly supported it exactly due to poor UX/UI. I was looking for something easy to pick up and I stumbled on LibrePCB and they are very user friendly to me. If you need particularly advanced features or depend on large existing libraries it may not be for you but for smaller hobby projects I think it's great.

Perhaps worth a shot?

In December they pushed a pretty big update with many new features: https://librepcb.org/blog/2024-12-01_release_1.2.0/

[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 1 month ago

Ah yeah LibrePCB is the only one I haven't tried actually. I guess I was put off by the name - I've found that projects that focus on geeky freedom tend to not care at all about UX, but it sounds like that isn't the case here so I'll definitely give it a shot, thanks!