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KiCad 5 Released

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 24 2018, @11:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the electronic-engineering dept.

Rich writes:

Almost a year has passed since the last minor update of KiCad, the most popular FLOSS application for schematic and circuit board design. Now the KiCad development team has presented the new and improved KiCad 5.0 release: http://kicad-pcb.org/blog/2018/07/KiCad-5--a-new-generation/. In addition to a good number of improvements to the application itself, the often criticized part libraries have been completely overhauled. KiCad binaries will be available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @01:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @01:34AM (#712082)

    I'm happy to see the STEP export. I make all my schematics and board layouts in KiCad, but our manufacturer in China demands STEP files for building plastic clamshell cases. I've always had to use an external program (FreeCAD) with a PCB import plugin. This will be much easier.

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