What CAD sytem do you use?

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Hello,

Excuse for the perhaps out of toppic question but what CAD system do you use to
build schematics and PCB ? And what do you advise to use for simple PCBs ?

In my case, at work, we have altium but to much complicated, I don’t use it a lot.

At home, I use DesignSpark PCB which is completely free (available on the RS web site)
makes comprehensive schematics, easy to add custom parts in libraries and is enough for me
francois

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Fusion360, they have just integrated Eagle into fusion for pcb work.

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I use Eagle version 7, its registered so no restrictions on board size, layers that sort of thing. I use the new versions to create to Gerbers though.

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I use kicad (free, opensource) for pcbs (like this -picture is a rendering from kicad 3d viewer).
mainPCB

For cases and other stuff I print, I use openscad.
At a first a bit strange to “program” 3D parts, but once you get used to it, quite powerful (and many libraries exists for many use cases that help further).

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Also KiCAD (on Linux but I assume the windows version is fine). Used with JLCPCB for a simple board (league below doppelgrau’s!)

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WOW!! …and fine on linux. :sunglasses:

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i use eagle, older version but works fine … i don’t like after autocad bought it, but it’s what i use …