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LibrePCB 0.1.7
- sitzkrieg 4y agolibrePCB is really great. its got a ways to go but updates like this show how quickly its accelerating. while i dont hate and use kicad a ton its always nice to have solid competition and choices in workflows and tools and cross pollination of course
- MezzoDelCammin 4y agoCould You expand a bit on the practical difference between Kicad and librePCB? Ideally for a hobbyist/ DIYer with no high frequency stuff? When / for what use case would You pick one or the other?
- danieleggert 4y agohttps://librepcb.org/compare/ https://librepcb.org/compare/
- MezzoDelCammin 4y agoThanks, but what I was after was the OPs actual experience. What's "his" (or any other actual individuals) reason to use one or the other. Stuff like "Kicad pisses me off because of X", or "librePCB really speeds up / simplifies me doing Y".
- ghostpepper 4y agoI appreciate that they point out the weaknesses of LibrePCB > So, if you are looking for an intuitive EDA tool to quickly design a simple PCB, you should give LibrePCB a try. But if you want to design complex PCBs, LibrePCB is probably not (yet) the tool you are looking for.
- brirec 4y agoI haven’t tried LibrePCB, but I should really give it a go. Designing PCBs can be fun and useful when hacking around electronics. I know my way around Eagle, but the free version is way too restricted and I can’t justify spending that kind of money when it’s a hobby that I poke a few times a year. But I also have had a hard time getting into Kicad for the same reason — a few months ago I wanted to make a board for a project and I decided to give KiCad another try, and after not making much progress over a long period of time I ended up downloading Eagle and dealing with the limitations. I guess my rambly point is, EDA software has phenomenally bad UI in my experience that takes a lot of time and effort (and reading, not just poking around!) to learn, and I really would love to see something that could flip that trend without itself being overly limiting.
- bart__ 4y agoTotally contra to this project, but relevant for your point. I found EasyEDA, developed by the people from JLCPCB, to be very easy to use for hobbiest boards. Their integration with their SMT assembly service was also pretty neat for my usecase
- app4soft 4y agoJFTR, LibrePCB Fab[0] service provides integration with few PCB manufacturers. [0] https://librepcb.org/blog/2022-09-08_partnership_with_pcbway/ https://librepcb.org/blog/2022-09-08_partnership_with_pcbway...
- brirec 4y agoThis sounds better to me than EasyEDA since I don’t want to be _stuck_ with JLCPCB (though a friend uses them and I’ve really only heard good things about them, so I’ll probably use them for my next project anyway…) Does EasyEDA lock you into JLCPCB? I don’t have anything against partnering with fab houses since it can really help accelerate the project, but I feel a little weird about using something that’s so deeply tied to another product that I “don’t need.” I feel like I should give EasyEDA a chance though either way, because it can’t be worse than Fritzing.
- dang 4y agoRelated: LibrePCB 0.1.4 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23059615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23059615 - May 2020 (20 comments) LibrePCB 0.1.3 released, now with DRC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676027 - Dec 2019 (33 comments) LibrePCB: First stable release published - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569969 - Nov 2018 (51 comments) LibrePCB: First release candidate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18302409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18302409 - Oct 2018 (5 comments)
- ur-whale 4y agoEagle library import - nice (assuming it works). Does KiCad support this feature?
- hulitu 4y ago> Only one library file format for all kinds of library elements This is not a good thing. It is easier for reuse to have separate symbol, footprint and 3d file.
- rnestler 4y agoThey are different files, just using the same S-expression based format.
- twarge 4y agoI evaluated both this and Horizon EDA last year and found Horizon to be far more powerful and polished. https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- stavros 4y agoIs Horizon competitive with KiCAD for hobbyist stuff yet? It has some killer features, but KiCAD is just too good.
- nigrioid 4y agoIt's a real shame Horizon uses GTK.
- twarge 4y agoWhat should it use?