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Re:CircuitMaker: a free PCB design tool powered by Altium by fr4 on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @04:52AM (#8329139)
I agree, but Altium Designer really is very, very good and has been built over almost 30 years. Unfortunately FOSS tools come nowhere near it.
Re:CircuitMaker: a free PCB design tool powered by Altium by stinos on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @07:31AM (#8329474)
This. I've used a couple of packages and AD is at the top of the line. Design is a pretty difficult problem to solve which is one of the reasons FOSS, which is usually created by a limited amount volunteers in their free time especially for niche branches (i.e. not like a kernel for instance), has trouble catching up with the work of larger amounts of full-time paid jobs which are focused on just one thing.