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by tdiggity 1099 days ago
If you qualify for this, or know someone that would - kicad is a great tool to learn, and probably the defacto standard for designing pcb's now that EAGLE has been discontinued.

But, I want to give a shoutout to easyeda.com. You can export straight to jlcpcb and it has parts integration with their preferred supplier lcsc.com so that you can do turnkey assembled boards from jlcpcb. It gets really interesting once you start designing with smaller surface mount components that might be too hard to solder at home.
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flaviut 1098 days ago
I haven't used EasyEDA, but I've seen many schematics built in EasyEDA and I'm not impressed.

Rather than having a carefully hand-built symbols library, EasyEDA seems to have just autogenerated symbols, where the pins are all in order from 1 to n. This is not good for schematic readability & fails to teach folks good schematic layout conventions.

Poor schematic quality could be because EasyEDA is mostly used by noobs, but I think it's worth it for even noobs to use KiCad. It's not too hard to export the files JLCPCB needs.

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konschubert 1098 days ago
I Found easyeda very clunky. Chinese error messages everywhere.

And you cannot export your designs.

I still used it for a project, because the integration with jlcpcb is so smooth.

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