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The holiday season has brought us major releases of three lighthouse projects of the Free Software world:
Krita has reached version 5.0 on the 23rd: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-0-released/
Blender already got to version 3.0 on the 3rd: https://www.blender.org/press/blender-3-0-a-new-era-for-content-creation/
and KiCAD hit 6.0 on the 25th: https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/12/KiCad-6.0.0-Release/
The upgrades are significant, and these three applications already rule their domains at the entry level. How much further will they go?
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A Good Month for Free Software with Three Major Releases
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 29 2021, @09:56PM
Yeah, I used (misused?) KiCad at work for plotting the connections in our GPIB relay array.
It wasn't exactly the right tool for the job, but it was so much better than trying it in Visio.
Overall, I think it is a great tool as it took me less time to download, learn to use and create 3 diagrams than it had already taken me to make those same 3 diagrams in any of the other tools I was using.
If I am ever actually designing circuits rather than diagramming relay layouts, I know what I will try to use first (assuming my employer is already requiring something).