I recently did my first KiCad project and found it to be quite cool. Most of my previous experience was 10+ years ago with Orcad and whatever free EDA tools were around then, so I'm not up to date regarding KiCad's competition but I didn't find much to complain about. The issues I had were quickly resolved with a rich assortment of how-to videos and tutorials.
I had to make a part using KiCad as well, and even that process was straightforward. I'm excited to work on my next layout project now after having used it. Bonus points for the 3D rendering mode which worked spectacularly on Ubuntu out of the box. It was very handy to visualize the finished board before assembly.
Kicad is a huge breath of fresh air coming from Orcad. The ease of hierarchical designs and the 3D rendering were mindblowingly cool to have after a decade of designing boards without them.
Fellow Orcad user for almost a decade; was absolutely thrilled to move to kicad.
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I recently did my first KiCad project and found it to be quite cool. Most of my previous experience was 10+ years ago with Orcad and whatever free EDA tools were around then, so I'm not up to date regarding KiCad's competition but I didn't find much to complain about. The issues I had were quickly resolved with a rich assortment of how-to videos and tutorials.
I had to make a part using KiCad as well, and even that process was straightforward. I'm excited to work on my next layout project now after having used it. Bonus points for the 3D rendering mode which worked spectacularly on Ubuntu out of the box. It was very handy to visualize the finished board before assembly.
Kicad is a huge breath of fresh air coming from Orcad. The ease of hierarchical designs and the 3D rendering were mindblowingly cool to have after a decade of designing boards without them.
Fellow Orcad user for almost a decade; was absolutely thrilled to move to kicad.