[HN Gopher] LibrePCB 0.1.7
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LibrePCB 0.1.7
Author : app4soft
Score : 61 points
Date : 2022-10-15 18:24 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (librepcb.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (librepcb.org)
| twarge wrote:
| I evaluated both this and Horizon EDA last year and found Horizon
| to be far more powerful and polished.
|
| https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
| nigrioid wrote:
| It's a real shame Horizon uses GTK.
| stavros wrote:
| Is Horizon competitive with KiCAD for hobbyist stuff yet? It
| has some killer features, but KiCAD is just too good.
| karotte wrote:
| Horizon EDA developer here. More than enough, everything's
| there for small to medium-sized projects.
| stavros wrote:
| Excellent, thank you! I played around with it for a bit,
| but I got stuck trying to look for an ESP8266 footprint and
| quit. It does look very promising overall, though.
| auxym wrote:
| Horizon can import KiCAD footprints IIRC.
| sitzkrieg wrote:
| librePCB is really great. its got a ways to go but updates like
| this show how quickly its accelerating. while i dont hate and use
| kicad a ton its always nice to have solid competition and choices
| in workflows and tools and cross pollination of course
| MezzoDelCammin wrote:
| Could You expand a bit on the practical difference between
| Kicad and librePCB? Ideally for a hobbyist/ DIYer with no high
| frequency stuff? When / for what use case would You pick one or
| the other?
| danieleggert wrote:
| https://librepcb.org/compare/
| MezzoDelCammin wrote:
| Thanks, but what I was after was the OPs actual experience.
| What's "his" (or any other actual individuals) reason to
| use one or the other.
|
| Stuff like "Kicad pisses me off because of X", or "librePCB
| really speeds up / simplifies me doing Y".
| ghostpepper wrote:
| I appreciate that they point out the weaknesses of LibrePCB
|
| > So, if you are looking for an intuitive EDA tool to
| quickly design a simple PCB, you should give LibrePCB a
| try. But if you want to design complex PCBs, LibrePCB is
| probably not (yet) the tool you are looking for.
| brirec wrote:
| I haven't tried LibrePCB, but I should really give it a go.
| Designing PCBs can be fun and useful when hacking around
| electronics.
|
| I know my way around Eagle, but the free version is way too
| restricted and I can't justify spending that kind of money when
| it's a hobby that I poke a few times a year. But I also have had
| a hard time getting into Kicad for the same reason -- a few
| months ago I wanted to make a board for a project and I decided
| to give KiCad another try, and after not making much progress
| over a long period of time I ended up downloading Eagle and
| dealing with the limitations.
|
| I guess my rambly point is, EDA software has phenomenally bad UI
| in my experience that takes a lot of time and effort (and
| reading, not just poking around!) to learn, and I really would
| love to see something that could flip that trend without itself
| being overly limiting.
| bart__ wrote:
| Totally contra to this project, but relevant for your point. I
| found EasyEDA, developed by the people from JLCPCB, to be very
| easy to use for hobbiest boards. Their integration with their
| SMT assembly service was also pretty neat for my usecase
| app4soft wrote:
| JFTR, _LibrePCB Fab_ [0] service provides integration with
| few PCB manufacturers.
|
| [0] https://librepcb.org/blog/2022-09-08_partnership_with_pcb
| way...
| brirec wrote:
| This sounds better to me than EasyEDA since I don't want to
| be _stuck_ with JLCPCB (though a friend uses them and I've
| really only heard good things about them, so I'll probably
| use them for my next project anyway...)
|
| Does EasyEDA lock you into JLCPCB? I don't have anything
| against partnering with fab houses since it can really help
| accelerate the project, but I feel a little weird about
| using something that's so deeply tied to another product
| that I "don't need."
|
| I feel like I should give EasyEDA a chance though either
| way, because it can't be worse than Fritzing.
| eulgro wrote:
| What's wrong with KiCad?
| rowanG077 wrote:
| I don't agree. Just a few weeks ago I taught two people, who
| had 0 PCB design skills, the basics in KiCAD. The first PCB
| designed by one of them is currently being produced. It was
| incredibly easy to teach and didn't take more then 45 minutes.
| LeifCarrotson wrote:
| A few months ago, you would have been on Kicad 6 (assuming you
| didn't pull some ancient 5.0 release from your distro), which
| I've found to have a great UI.
|
| Like all EDA software, the UI is optimized for power users, and
| therefore has some quirks and a learning curve for the hotkeys,
| but I would not say that Kicad is phenomenally bad. Work your
| way through one tutorial (eg. this recent one:
| https://youtu.be/aVUqaB0IMh4) and make a quick-reference note
| for shortcuts, and you can probably be off to the races.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _LibrePCB 0.1.4 Released_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23059615 - May 2020 (20
| comments)
|
| _LibrePCB 0.1.3 released, now with DRC_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676027 - Dec 2019 (33
| comments)
|
| _LibrePCB: First stable release published_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569969 - Nov 2018 (51
| comments)
|
| _LibrePCB: First release candidate_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18302409 - Oct 2018 (5
| comments)
| ur-whale wrote:
| Eagle library import - nice (assuming it works).
|
| Does KiCad support this feature?
| hulitu wrote:
| > Only one library file format for all kinds of library elements
|
| This is not a good thing. It is easier for reuse to have separate
| symbol, footprint and 3d file.
| rnestler wrote:
| They are different files, just using the same S-expression
| based format.
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