This makes it easier to avoid routing close to, or underneath, certain signals. KiCad gives you an option to view these, lets you see which signal you’re routing, as well as the surrounding traces. Maybe learn how to add custom 3D components, and possibly export the models to a rendering engine. We need to play around with it some more. They make it easy to inspect the silkscreen. All the features of the software are unlocked so there’s absolutely no limitations like we experience with Eagle.īuilt-in 3D previews are nice. Read our likes, dislikes, and general comments on using KiCad below.įirst and foremost it’s open source, which goes hand in hand with the open hardware we like to make.
This came as a necessity because the free version of Eagle is restricted to 100mm x 80mm PCBs, and the current ATX breakout already uses all that space. Last week we used the open source circuit design and PCB layout program KiCad to design version 2 of the ATX Breakout Board.
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