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Is there a good free circuit layout program?

Canada EH
By Canada EH
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http://www.falstad.com/circuit/

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If you sign up for a student account with autodesk you can get eagle for free. there are no checks and you don't need a student email address, this also works for fusion 360.

 

https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/eagle

 

EDIT: i tend to go with the industry standard, but if you want an open source alternative you can try KiCad

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1 hour ago, SuperCloneRanger said:

If you sign up for a student account with autodesk you can get eagle for free. there are no checks and you don't need a student email address, this also works for fusion 360.

 

https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/eagle

 

EDIT: i tend to go with the industry standard, but if you want an open source alternative you can try KiCad

Yes! And Eagle has a PCB creation tool as well.

 

it's important to note that you don't need a student license to use Fusion for free, as long as you're making under $100k a year on Fusion, you don't have to pay for it except cloud credits.

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KiCad is open source , free.

Diptrace has free version (has some limits for free version, like max 300 pins on chips or something like that) and it's good.

Altium CircuitMaker is free but i think online, req. free account: https://www.altium.com/circuitmaker/overview

They also have some ancient stuff free in "legacy downloads" like P-CAD or even DOS software like Autotrax: https://techdocs.altium.com/display/ALEG/Legacy+Downloads

 

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I find the one I used doesnt have many symbol choices. But it was easy to learn.

 

I am just going to use graph paper and colored pencils.

 

 

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Kicad is the best free option aside from eagle when it comes to free eda software. It my preferred choice right now as altium is still a bit over budget for me. 

Kicad is prey good when it comes to availability of parts libraries. Snap eda is my go to source for kicad footprints and symbols

Here is an example of one of my recent projects in kicad

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Case: Phanteks Evolve X with ITX mount  cpu: Ryzen 3900X 4.35ghz all cores Motherboard: MSI X570 Unify gpu: EVGA 1070 SC  psu: Phanteks revolt x 1200W Memory: 64GB Kingston Hyper X oc'd to 3600mhz ssd: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB ITX System CPU: 4670k  Motherboard: some cheap asus h87 Ram: 16gb corsair vengeance 1600mhz

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

 

 

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A long time LTT viewer that signed up “7 minutes ago”.

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A long time LTT viewer that signed up “7 minutes ago”.

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