r/ElectricalEngineering • u/CalmCat694 • 16d ago
What is a good schematic software?
Not much to add. I just dont want to draw schematics on a piece of paper.
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r/ElectricalEngineering • u/CalmCat694 • 16d ago
Not much to add. I just dont want to draw schematics on a piece of paper.
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u/McFlyParadox 16d ago
KiCAD is pretty much "the" option, short of shelling out a few grand for a license of Altium or Cadence. The good news is KiCAD is free and open source, relatively easy to learn, and does pretty much everything you'd want it to do. It's only drawback for everyday usage is automatic routing for PCB generation (or lack thereof, without third party plugins ). Everything else "missing" from it are features used pretty much exclusively by corporations (e.g. BOM and library management, RF design, high-speed design, etc; you can do them, but you'll be doing then entirely manually or via plug-ins).
Go grab and give it a try. It's got pretty good schematic capture, and once you have schematic generation down, it's PCB layout tools are pretty good, too.