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by reportingsjr
3850 days ago
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Worse in some ways, much better in others. The UIs of both are pretty terrible so even on that point.
The schematic tools are pretty similar in their capabilities.
KiCad's pcb tool has some much more advanced features (mostly added by a group at CERN in the last year) such as a push and shove router, differential trace routing and length tuning which can auto add serpentines, etc. It is not 100% feature complete compared to the old pcb engine though. KiCad also has some nice user scripts for importing/exporting 3d models for mechanical work now. (search kicad stepup) All in all, they are close to the same level right now. A lot of KiCad is in flux right now though because a lot of contributors have come on in the last couple of years. Much of the program is being rewritten/has been rewritten recently. It doesn't seem to be slowing down either. full disclosure: I help develop KiCad a bit. I tried to be pretty balanced in this comparison though. |
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