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Re:Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool by Hewitt87 on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:58AM (#31235938)
While we're sharing our favourite open source EDA tools, HorizonEDA deserves a lot more love and attention.

https://horizon-eda.org/

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Re:Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool by phkahler on Monday May 02, 2022 @12:00PM (#31236887)
>> While we're sharing our favourite open source EDA tools, HorizonEDA deserves a lot more love and attention

My impression is that Horizon-EDA is well worth following, but not as far along as KiCAD. It's a nice second option that some people prefer.

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Re:Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool by IshKebab on Monday May 02, 2022 @12:55PM (#31237664)
Unless you really need some really advanced KiCAD features then Horizon is far far more usable. Night and day.
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Re:Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool by phkahler on Monday May 02, 2022 @02:10PM (#31238667)
I'm just happy to say you can now use SolveSpace to create STEP models of components for either one: https://solvespace.com/index.pl
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Re:Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool by ThrowawayIP on Monday May 02, 2022 @12:17PM (#31237131)
The Pool concept of horizon is very interesting. Libraries & Library Management are absolutely the worst part of EDA/E-CAD. I wonder where the Return on Invested time happens for this concept.
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