<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>I use kicad exclusively, though I do pcb layout somewhat infrequently. Once you learn its quirks it's not bad. Unfortunately I don't use it often enough to remember all of it's workarounds. <div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Shane Trent via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org> <br>Date: 1/21/2016 12:21 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: Brian <triembed@undecidedgames.net>, triembed@triembed.org <br>Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] old versions of Eagle? <br><br><div dir="ltr">Brian,<div><br></div><div>You stoke fear of KiCAD in my heart when you describe it as lacking the (paraphrasing here) "streamlined and intuitive interface of Eagle"! But it is time for me to give the new KiCAD release a shot.</div><div><br></div><div>Shane</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 7:58 AM Brian via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On KiCAD:<br>
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The workflow is not nearly as streamlined nor as intuitive as it is in<br>
Eagle (as is the sad fact of many many FOSS projects). I'm in the midst<br>
of getting my head around it myself so that I can escape the routing<br>
area and layer limitations of the free Eagle version.<br>
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That said, aside from the head-scratching moments, I haven't found many<br>
situations where KiCAD has failed to perform.<br>
<br>
Good luck!<br>
<br>
-B<br>
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