Hi what is the best free pcb design softwre for a noob? I ve seen a lot of people working with eagle but a friend proposed design spark because it has no limitations.. any suggestions please? Harry

This notion of "best" comes up all the time. And regardless of what you ask is the "best", the answer will always be: "it depends." There are no shortages of software available. I would suggest avoiding any software which is tied to a specifc PCB manufacturer. While in the short-term it might seem …

Ive recently started to use Eagle. Its really not so hard once you get in to it and there are tons of examples and tips on the net. Whenever I got stuck on how to do something a quick google and I could find a tutorial to use. I looked at a few others but found Eagle easier to get my head round a…

FreePcb FreePCB: freeware PCB layout software FreePCB: freeware PCB layout software Open source code, but only windows. Takes a bit of reading to get up to speed. You will eventually need to add the gerber viewer tool, and the hook for the online router to…

I would also vote for Eagle. Steep learning curve but definitely worth to learn. Eagle will scale to professional needs and a lot of people seem to use it. Especially the Arduino schematics come in Eagle format. But as it was already noticed: it depends. Udo

Let me say KiCAD here, for searching purpouses, it deserves. Wish I knew it later, finding it to be smarter than eagle. Not to mention Open Source. But yes, I'm an OSS maniac.

Have to agree with udo. Now as we are already disscusing the software, i would like to steal the topic a bit. What program do they use for making this? Dont tell me they use graphical programs ? :o

I looked at gEda and kicad but couldnt even start to get into it. It all looked lake a lot of separate tools loosely connected together. I just couldnt seem to get started. Perversely I got into eagle quite quickly and soon had something ready for etching. Maybe its just the way Im wired. Gordo…

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No experience but add http://fritzing.org/ to your list of apps to check. Its open source so ...

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