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Hi Erik, I too am 70 and have used Kicad for a long while. You can drag instead of move, and connections stretch.

This last year I have had to use Altium for one project, and imho Kicad is easier to use for anything that has only one PCB and does not require that wiring harnesses can be designed as part of the overall project in the same CAD tool.

Andrew

On 06.03.24 06:42, Jon Evans wrote:

> The KiCad team is conducting a survey of users to get more information

> about how people use KiCad and other design tools, and what they like and

> dislike about it. This survey should only take a few minutes to complete.

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Tried it just now, but hit:

"Error loading resources

This resource doesn't exist or you don't have the neccessary rights to

access it."

Several attempts, same result.

In any event, I'm just familiarising on a first serious Kicad project,

after years of using Eagle. I'm impressed to find not only ATmegas, but

also a 6-pin DIL header already pin-identified as AVR-ISP-6, so no need

to remember where miso, mosi, reset, and sck go. Nifty.

It's taking an hour or two to put into muscle memory how to rotate, that

flip is mirror - about (not in) X or Y, that an Escape is necessary to

leave the clutches of selected zoom when you now want to select a

component group, and that wires do not stretch when that group is moved

- they just disconnect.

The on-line manual is a life saver, especially for a 70 yo who does not

find most GUIs even remotely intuitive. I find it's the user who has to

be programmed. Eagle was stranger, I think. The fact that I came across

just to have a look, but am staying, at least so far, says it all, perhaps.

It'll be interesting when it comes time to send off the PCB files.

Erik

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