[time-nuts] Schematic capture, anyone?

[Chris Albertson]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Jim Hickstein <jxh at jxh.com> wrote:
> What do people use these days for schematic capture (and just possibly PCB
> layout), for low-budget homebrew stuff?

"Eagle" is popular.  It is a commercial product but there is a free
version that limits you to "smallish" PCBs.  If you out grow it the
next step up is not that much more than free.
http://www.cadsoftusa.com/

here is a very complete, if not up to date list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_EDA_software

Of the free systems gEDA and KiCAD have large active user bases.


Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California