KiCad

“you could design the schematic in KiCad and then export the netlist to Verilog”

“the current stable release lacks agentic-friendly hooks which will hopefully land in 11”

“It ran using kicad completely headlessly from a terminal with a bit of python”

“It is _really_ good at the stackup and part config, but creates some absolutely terrible routes.”

“ChatGPT can go long way designing printed circuit boards with text based KiCad”

“KiCad wasn't built for AI-gen with things like automatic routing/placement”

“None of those things feel user friendly to people that don't want to make a career out of it.”

“I find mouse-driven PCB layout maddening, so the whole card is a Python script driving KiCad's API”

“identified some issues with builtin KiCad libraries, like host/card PCIe socket mismatches that would lead to ERC failures”

“KiCAD is a fantastic piece of FOSS software. It's a full schematic/PCB design suite”

“If you get to the point of having PCBs made you can use KiCad to design the boards.”

“It's always cool to see people discover KiCad and the amazing world we live in now”

“You can run KiCad just fine on Wayland because XWayland was built for applications like these.”

“I initially found EasyEDA to be easier to use especially with auto routing. But KiCAD is definitely more powerful.”

“If a DAW was structured like Blender or KiCAD and designed from the ground up to be extensible”

“LibrePCB's library design paradigm works a lot better to me than does KiCAD's”

“I use kicad since it's free, and there's solid instructions from most houses on what they need.”

“KiCad's best usability innovation is that you press M/G and the thing under the cursor gets selected automatically.”

“While dragging tracks does trigger Shove mode dragging components does not :(”

“It's still broken if you need to read the manual to be able to move components sanely.”

“drag components in the schematic editor without instantly disconnecting all the wires”

“I'll use a touchpad or a combination of touchpad and mouse in other apps like KiCad and it works quite well.”

“I think their interactive router is pretty great, and a huge improvement over older versions.”

“it's actually good enough to make a lot of models but it's just unfriendly enough to make it take way too long to do”

“I am convincing lots of people to move from EAGLE to it now that EAGLE is about to be killed by AutoDesk, and everyone seem to be having a good time.”

“the GUI (used Altium, Allegro and Kicad professionally) gets in the way”

“KiCAD's bus functionality could help reduce a lot of the pins going into your blocks”

“Version 5 was kinda-sorta usable - but buggy and painful. In practice everyone would tell you to just download the nightly build of version 6 instead”

“KiCAD has seen incredible advances since CERN started pouring resources into it”

“Today's UI is good, so I actually recommend starting on that over something like EasyEDA.”

“never could fully figure out how to do the basics of what I wanted to do”

“there are free (Or you could say inexpensive) high quality tools in their spaces”

“KiCad is also an example of exquisite Blender-like software for designing things.”

“For those switching from an $EXPENSIVE tool to KiCad, may I humbly recommend donating to the project”

“one limitation embedded into its DNA is very annoying: one project - one schematic - one PCB”

“KiCad is awesome. Combined with git I have CI/CD pipeline in gitlab that builds my fabrication files”

“Kicad is now by far the best option for both hobbyists and small companies.”

“It's a fun project that really couldn't have been done before the launch of KiCad 9”

“On the EDA side CERN did a lot to lift Kicad to the point of being a credible alternative”

“The nice thing with KiCAD is that a part is simply a symbol (schematic element) with enough parameters attached.”