Kicad

Hallo allemaal,


About two years (?) ago I opened a discussion about using Eagle or Kicad. I was thinking about switching to Kicad but I was not really motivated for three reason:
- There were means to convert Eagle to Kicad but not really user friendly and not reliable (I tried it myself).
- The tutorial was bad IMHO.
- The program itself was not really convincing.
During that discussion I was able to lay may hands on Eagle 7.70 and that ended the discussion from my side.

But two days ago I was looking for a part, an ATX board to be precise, on internet and found out that 7.70 already was old and obsolete. Paying 300 Euro / year as hobbyist is out of the question. I found the Kicad files of a board I have, https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php?id=boards:isa:isa-backplane:start , so I started to have another look at Kicad again:
- The tutorial had been improved and was very good now.
- The program itself was improved as well.
- Most important: the conversion of Eagle files, SCH and BRD, went w/o a problem. I used the 8088 board for the CBM-II as a test case.

So I have decided to use Kicad from now on. Just to inform you.


With kind regards / met vriendelijke groet, Ruud Baltissen

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