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by metafex
2387 days ago
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Quite the contrary, KiCad is constantly improving and getting better with each release. When did your Altium last crash? I bet it wasn't more than a week ago. To quote a colleague: "Altium is used by those who are forced to do so" The real reason why companies are invested so much in it, because they have knowledge in it and huge design libraries. Now offering a way to convert those properly to KiCad and giving support for edge-cases, that would be a business opportunity. |
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I last used kicad in 2014 so perhaps my opinion is dated, but there was no competition then. I can't imagine an order of magnitude improvement has happened since.
Other random thoughts: real boards take weeks because signal integrity had to be taken into account. If I can just mash wires from point to point it doesn't take that long. Also: hobbyist kicad users won't pay for this service.
No expertise necessary - who the heck is the target demographic? Who is doing custom hardware these days that finds the PCB layout part of the design difficult (but amenable to autorouting?)