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Diptrace vs Eagle vs Kicad vs PCB (gEDA) vs whatever I missed.
Kicad is free but I get frustrated with it. I couldn't figure out, for example, how to drag multiple pads at once: selecting pads only allows move, not drag What?! I asked on their fairly active Yahoo group and got no reply.
gEDA is also free but seems overly complicated and runs on Linux only. This leads me to believe that open source PCB CAD programs are mostly useless.
Eagle seems to be popular and I've used it before. Not great but it's OK. Compared to some other stuff (Altium) it's cheap.
Diptrace seems to have great reviews and is also cheap. This is probably my current bet but I want to get some feedback and see if other programs can be suggested.
I prefer people that post here to have used more than one PCB program, otherwise a comparison is meaningless.
Kicad is free but I get frustrated with it. I couldn't figure out, for example, how to drag multiple pads at once: selecting pads only allows move, not drag What?! I asked on their fairly active Yahoo group and got no reply.
gEDA is also free but seems overly complicated and runs on Linux only. This leads me to believe that open source PCB CAD programs are mostly useless.
Eagle seems to be popular and I've used it before. Not great but it's OK. Compared to some other stuff (Altium) it's cheap.
Diptrace seems to have great reviews and is also cheap. This is probably my current bet but I want to get some feedback and see if other programs can be suggested.
I prefer people that post here to have used more than one PCB program, otherwise a comparison is meaningless.