What is your go-to PCB layout/designer? Why?

[ElCaron]

You are aware of this?

[polymorph]

Or, for those of us in North America or who like our links to be more descriptive:

Digikey KiCAD Parts Library

[Watcher]

You are aware of this?

Wow..thanks!

And no, i wasn't aware of it!

[holesflow]

I decided to give easyeda.com a try on a little project I had planned. So far, seems very good. I found almost the exact part I needed in the user-contributed libraries, which was the RFM95 board. Ideally I wanted a footprint that had both the thru-hole  and surface mount options, but so far I could only find one with the surface mount pads. The estimated cost of production is $2!

That's a neato PCB, Paul! It's like a project board with radio built in, right?

[allanhurst]

Having designed multilayer boards for mobile phones etc with   BGA's , microvias and so on I'm not sure whether these freebies support them.

The professional stuff is expensive. I've mostly used PADS . It's a bit of a pig to learn, though very versatile.


Not that it'll worry me much as a retired hobbyist....

Allan

[holesflow]

I guess this topic is split now for some reason.

[PaulRB]

Yes, it went way off topic. I asked the mods to split it because both threads seemed valuable. The other thread is here.

[holesflow]

Yes, it went way off topic.

Yeah, I guess so...
All good!