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KiCad seems to keep getting better.

I dabble but have created a few boards both as a hobby and a small
volume small boards  ~100 that have been sent to fab.and have found it to
be more fun and less frustrating these days.

I hope v6 does not go the way of many popular software titles where it
seems it is changed for changes sake and becomes much harder to use.



On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 6:56 AM Alan Pearce <kiwiantipodean@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:28:20 +1000
> James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org> wrote:
>
> > I use KiCad, on Ubuntu 20.04, using either the nightly builds, the
> > latest stable from the project, or at a pinch the Ubuntu packaging.
> > On the other hand, I've not used it enough to be comfortable
> > answering questions about it.
> >
>
> I have had a little play with kicad, and quite like it. I haven't done
> any serious work with it yet, but have some PCBs I want to do in the
> foreseeable future. I am holding off at the moment as version 6 is due
> for release in the very near future and seems to have a number of
> improvements.
>
> another nice thing with Kicad is it will also run on windows.
>
> If you do decide to get serious with Kicad there is a guy in Australia
> has written a good book https://techexplorations.com/so/kicada/ and I
> presume he will be updating this for v6. He has done a rolling review
> of the beta version of v6 on his blog (referred to as v5.99) so seems
> to be well up with it. The ebook is available seperately from his
> course, and the profits go to funding Kicad.
>
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