[HN Gopher] KiCad 6.0.0
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       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!
        
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