[TriEmbed] KiCad 5 Release

[Brian]

On 07/25/2018 04:15 PM, Kevin McClaning via TriEmbed wrote:
> I'm learning Altium Designer at work. Steep learning curve. I wonder if 
> kicad is any easier.

I haven't tried Altium, but I've watched a colleague use it.  I've also 
used a small handful of other eCAD packages, and even written a small 
schematic editor program myself.  It's my impression that all eCAD (and 
other CAD for that matter) packages have a steep learning curve, because 
any good one will have a huge amount of tools and features, all 
necessary to get the job done well.

I've been running my own fork of KiCAD for some time now, having 
extended it to make use of MySQL-based symbol and footprint libraries. 
It'll be interesting to see how difficult it will be to port my 
modifications to the new release.

-B