I second John on gEDA, its what I use for my hobby boards and it works just fine. In my opinion it is better than KiCad in terms of using normal UI conventions. Obviously a bit less polished than something like altium, but pretty usable when compared with other EDA suits I've run into. Aside: I had to use cadence Layout Editor for a while and wow (not in a good way)... its a DOS program that had been ported to windows basically unchanged. On a fast quad core workstation I could count each individual line and rectangle it redrew on the screen each time something was selected or moved. It also defied most of the basic conventions like KiCad and Eagle. A bit painful. Although the schematic side was excellent.. Eagle is usable if you set up keyboard shortcuts, but of course even it is a bit expensive when compared to something like gEDA. Where you pay for it with gEDA is the time (well) spent learning the tool. Some tools for doing things like generating symbols from spreadsheets are only available as external scripts, but they work well. On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:19 AM, John Gardner wrote: > May be pertinent... > > http://www.eevblog.com/2014/09/05/so-who-is-altium-buying/ > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --=20 Jason White --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .