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by bmitc 1219 days ago
Interesting timing. Just yesterday I downloaded KiCad and CircuitMaker. I want to start documenting a circuit design, mainly piecing together schematics from application notes. Does anyone have any suggestions on any other options or what was selected among the options?
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As someone who has used CircuitMaker a lot id say don't even bother with it and use KiCad instead.

Since KiCad v6 I can't think of anything CM does better, on top of that the CM forums are full of spam and it seems obvious that Altium have effectively abandoned it.

I switched when KiCad 6 came out and haven't looked back - I can have as many custom parts I want and I don't need to upload my design to the cloud to generate gerbers, I also don't miss the characteristic exception errors that CM would throw all the time

Thanks for the feedback. I'll give KiCad a whirl then.