[HN Gopher] KiCad 6.0.0 ___________________________________________________________________ KiCad 6.0.0 Author : hasheddan Score : 59 points Date : 2021-12-24 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (gitlab.com) (TXT) w3m dump (gitlab.com) | elihu wrote: | I just installed rc2 the other day, and was happy to see that I | can import SVG files to the copper layer now in the pcb editor. | (I have a kicad project I haven't worked on in a few years so I | don't know when they made that change, but it's nice to see it | works now.) | paulryanrogers wrote: | Do any professionals here use it? I did some AutoCAD in high | school and tried this years ago. It felt competent and less | crashy than late 90s AutoCAD, but a little more awkward. | R0b0t1 wrote: | Yes. Not suitable for very high density designs yet, like a | motherboard. But you can layout high-speed differential designs | with more effort than, say, Altium. But these tools with good | auto-routing are very expensive. | Findecanor wrote: | KiCAD is and "EDA tool" for designing electronic circuits and | circuit boards. | | I'd recommend QCad for pure 2D CAD otherwise. I like it and use | it a lot. I've never tried classic AutoCAD but I've been told | that they are similar. | robarr wrote: | A Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design Automation | Suite | | https://www.kicad.org/ | sokoloff wrote: | The blog entry noting the tagging of 6.0 RC1 and some of the | highlights of what's in it might be more communicative than just | the github tree. | | https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/12/Development-Highlight-Thi... | zem wrote: | thanks, that is indeed more informative, especially since i | couldn't find a changelog in the sources. | mgsouth wrote: | This blog entry shows a couple of last-minute changes, but I | haven't found any release notes yet. However, here is a list of | development hightlights blog posts [0] and the 6.0.0-rc1 | milestone page [1]. | | [0] https://www.kicad.org/blog/categories/Development- | Highlight/ | | [1] | https://gitlab.com/groups/kicad/libraries/-/milestones/1#tab... | suyash wrote: | wonderful piece of open source software for hardware engineering, | congrats! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-24 23:00 UTC)