And the library manager is a total mess, even worse than Eagle but not worse than DipTrace (nice software, but that shitty library manager makes it useless). Many essential components weren't available on the library, but I understand they don't have tons of followers and Ultra Librarian doesn't support KiCad (the software seems outdated and bloated crap, but it does it's job well). Maybe I'm too stupid for this smart software, it's very possible. It's hard to explain, I find it like an application for CAD nerds (I'm unable to use AutoCAD too). in Eagle and I'm an awful drawer that prefer to use some standard symbols than put my GREAT drawing talent just to do a shit after tons of times later. I yet have to find about creating parts in KiCad. It was difficult to move objects and place lines, the lack of back annotation made my n00b mistakes even more frustrating than it already is and made me insa e. I find the interface too frustrating to use, I was able to replicate a simple 741 exercise from class in 'just' a few hours. I built it a month ago using AUR, it took ages to built.

Windows MAC OS X Ubunutu Linux All this info is here. There are multiple easy ways to install the current version of KiCAD. If you are downloading the stable build today it is basically software released in 2012 with some bug fixes along the way, but all the interesting stuff has been happening in the development branch. In CERN's mission for this effort they claim they will make KiCAD an open source package that is equivalent to the best Professional tools. After that they will start to tackle the usability issues to turn it into best in class EDA. That said I think most of that is done and there is a new release coming in the next month or two. Just to give you a quick idea of whats going on, the Dev team had to do a lot of plumbing changes to make a lot of the UI /library management items possible to implement. The software is being pretty heavily developed right now.

I'm pretty sure the future of open source EDA software is KiCAD.

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