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leomecma
Joined: 17 Jun 2005
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 21 May 2008 16:55 Free CAD programs for electronic |
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Hi people,
Can anyone give me some directions in CAD (for PCB, schematic and routing) totally free? What's experiencies do you have? What is good?
leomecma
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DMan
Joined: 20 Oct 2005
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Location: Slovenia
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| 21 May 2008 18:17 Re: Free CAD programs for electronic |
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The best free PCB design program i found so far is without a doubt KiCAD!
Great, check it out!
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yashiro32
Joined: 05 Sep 2007
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| 08 Jun 2008 18:39 Re: Free CAD programs for electronic |
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| Target 3001 V13 is a good pcb design software. It provide circuit simulation and EMC check.
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CMOS
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
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| 08 Jun 2008 21:35 Re: Free CAD programs for electronic |
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| yashiro32 wrote: |
| Target 3001 V13 is a good pcb design software. It provide circuit simulation and EMC check. |
And its not FREE !
I agree KiCAD is simply superb!
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difflvl
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| 08 Jun 2008 23:45 Re: Free CAD programs for electronic |
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| gEDA for linux systems
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AdvaRes
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| 09 Jun 2008 11:14 Free CAD programs for electronic |
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| Try SPLAN it's a strong tool.
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nathan80
Joined: 23 Feb 2006
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| 11 Jun 2008 10:41 Re: Free CAD programs for electronic |
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| FREE PCB is also a good software and easy to use
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cyberrat
Joined: 19 Jun 2001
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| 12 Jun 2008 11:52 Re: Free CAD programs for electronic |
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The link appear to show an empty folder?
| DMan wrote: |
The best free PCB design program i found so far is without a doubt KiCAD!
Great, check it out! |
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CMOS
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
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| 12 Jun 2008 20:28 Re: Free CAD programs for electronic |
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| cyberrat wrote: |
The link appear to show an empty folder?
| DMan wrote: |
The best free PCB design program i found so far is without a doubt KiCAD!
Great, check it out! |
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It works for me !!
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Kripton2035
Joined: 19 Jul 2001
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| 12 Jun 2008 21:16 Re: Free CAD programs for electronic |
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| cyberrat wrote: |
The link appear to show an empty folder?
| DMan wrote: |
The best free PCB design program i found so far is without a doubt KiCAD!
Great, check it out! |
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it show also an empty folder for me if I open it with firefox
it shows lots of things when I open it with safari ...
so it seems to be a browser issue ?
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DMan
Joined: 20 Oct 2005
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| 12 Jun 2008 22:12 Re: Free CAD programs for electronic |
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| Kripton2035 wrote: |
| cyberrat wrote: |
The link appear to show an empty folder?
| DMan wrote: |
The best free PCB design program i found so far is without a doubt KiCAD!
Great, check it out! |
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it show also an empty folder for me if I open it with firefox
it shows lots of things when I open it with safari ...
so it seems to be a browser issue ? |
I have copied the apropriate web address, it's the same as the first google hit for search word "kicad". I'm using Firefox and everything seems OK for me. Try to acces it on the alternative page hosted on Sourceforge
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Kripton2035
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| 13 Jun 2008 16:36 Free CAD programs for electronic |
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in fact I use an adware module for firefox : adblock and when I desactivate it everything shows normal !
so it's a plugin browser issue...
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wyatt
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