I have used many schematic capture and PCB layout programs professionally over my 40+ year career. (In fact I started with a drafting board and tape on mylar on a light table in the 70's LOL). For my own personal use now that I'm retired, I use DipTrace. It's free (for hobby size projects), quite easy to use, and installs fully on your own computer. So even if the company discontinues it for some reason, you will never lose your work. If you are only interested in schematics you should be up and running and have your first small 6 transistor or IC schematic done in an hour or two even with the learning curve. Good PCB layouts can take much more time to learn with any software as there is a whole skill set to master. But schematics only are fairly straight forward. There are a bunch of mini youtube tutorials available too.?
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Regards Tom
