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Gentlemen,

Schematic/PCB software 5.0 from KiCAD, the massively powerful,
long awaited, auto-routing and multi-OS integrated package, with better libraries and 3D models
is now on their site for download. Also available in many languages, see the localization support.

and yes, *free*, funded by CERN. this is a great public milestone,
and very useful for guys like me that are not on Windows,
as it runs on Ubuntu and many other LInux platforms (Debian, Mint, Suse and more) as well as Apple
and Windows. This software is why several wildly over-priced commercial packages
have had huge discounts recently, the days of the abusively over-priced $5K PCB CAD seat are
running out. Eagle guys can import designs directly. It now also links to Ngspice.

see:

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for all the details. This is a great moment for designers that
have not had a good tool that runs outside of windows, or one they could
afford for personal use.

all the best,
walter

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On 07/23/2018 10:44 AM, walter shawlee wrote:

Gentlemen,
Schematic/PCB software 5.0 from KiCAD, the massively powerful,

For people who like using linux and scripting and make files, (like chip designers),
pcb-rnd is rapidly becoming a complete toolkit for making blind buried vias,
defining groups of circuitry that move as one, searching for data in layout and extracting
parasitics. The autorouter is soso, but there is another one and ways to use external ones also
in the works. Schematics are possible to come from Kicad or gschem.
You can import a netlist from eeschema and keep using eeschema, or switch to gschem if not a Kicad user already.

pcb-rnd will not force upgrades on you ever -- older formats of files are going to be supported if anything changes.
No upgrade treadmill.