What software do you all use for PCB design ?
I have used FreePCB for many years, as its name suggests it is an open-source program under the GNU General Public License, and it does pretty much everything I want it to do. I'm sure there's things it cannot do, but thankfully not come up against an obstacle yet that can't be gotten around with some trickery. One thing it is not particularly good at is designs that have mixed units, e.g. trying to route a part whose pins lie on a mm grid, onto a board that has conventional mil grids. Some amount of routing part way from one pin, cancelling, then routing back from the other pin to the partially routed trace is needed to keep the traces straight and aesthetically pleasing.
I have briefly looked at others, e.g Eagle, KiCAD, etc., and found them by comparison, difficult to learn. When I first got FreePCB I dived straight in, designed my first board in about an hour, and not really looked back since, it really is easy to use.
As it is not supported anymore, I suppose at some point I will have to bite the bullet and migrate to another software, just wondering who gets most votes.
I have used FreePCB for many years, as its name suggests it is an open-source program under the GNU General Public License, and it does pretty much everything I want it to do. I'm sure there's things it cannot do, but thankfully not come up against an obstacle yet that can't be gotten around with some trickery. One thing it is not particularly good at is designs that have mixed units, e.g. trying to route a part whose pins lie on a mm grid, onto a board that has conventional mil grids. Some amount of routing part way from one pin, cancelling, then routing back from the other pin to the partially routed trace is needed to keep the traces straight and aesthetically pleasing.
I have briefly looked at others, e.g Eagle, KiCAD, etc., and found them by comparison, difficult to learn. When I first got FreePCB I dived straight in, designed my first board in about an hour, and not really looked back since, it really is easy to use.
As it is not supported anymore, I suppose at some point I will have to bite the bullet and migrate to another software, just wondering who gets most votes.