I recently switched from Altium Designer to KiCad, because while I do have access to Altium Designer, I wanted it to be more accessible. KiCad is quite good, o

I recently switched from Altium Designer to KiCad, because while I do have access to Altium Designer, I wanted it to be more accessible. KiCad is quite good, once you get the hang of it and the differences between Altium. I was able to put together reasonably complicated boards (OSH Park level tolerances) without a problem. If you want to do stuff like DDR routing and the like I don't think it's up to par, but most hobbyist projects (well, most projects in general) are very suited to KiCad. I even designed an entire PCB on it from my Novena, which was pretty neat (2nd generation open source hardware!) The oddest thing is that there's no built in standard part creation wizard, there's an online tool for it but it's a bit less than ideal.