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Until you need to route DDR (or any other parallel bus nets.) Or use any significant amount of impedance control. Or use blind/buried vias. Or tent specific sid
by 15155 3y ago
Until you need to route DDR (or any other parallel bus nets.) Or use any significant amount of impedance control. Or use blind/buried vias. Or tent specific sides of vias.
Kicad is great, but there are very solid use cases that are substantially more painful than other commercial EDA offerings.
- mips_r4300i 3y agoI've watched the growth of kicad since 2013. Far more usable now, though it was very poor at the beginning. In its current state I could recommend it for most hobbyist stuff and some simpler commercial PCBs. Far better than Eagle ever got. Meanwhile I will continue to use Altium for everything just because I'm fast with it. When time is money and $8k is just another expense it's well worth it.
- MagerValp 3y agoWhat’s the issue with blind vias? You had to enable them manually earlier, but as of 7 I think they’re always enabled.
- 15155 3y agoThe level of UI polish and control Altium gives you over the construction of HDI vias (and just in general, the properties pane) is substantially greater.
- SeasonalEnnui 3y agoAgreed! The gap is getting smaller, I can imagine feature parity in another few years. Some fellow nerds doing that kind of stuff in $$$-EDA say it isn't exactly smooth sailing in those EDAs - regular crashes and so on.
- eternityforest 3y agoWhat kind of projects doesn't need all those things, but yet is still too complex to just do in LibrePCB? To me the nicer and less keyboard driven UI(last I checked, haven't tried KiCAD in years) makes Libre worth it.