Suggestions on the Best Free EDA tool for Beginners

　　Hello everyone, just a quick opinion survey, what EDA do you think is best and why? Something that is hopefully often updated and is stable. I have looked into EasyEDA and Design spark, but are there any other EDAs there?

　　Opinions are highly appreciated, Thanks

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michaelkellett over 6 years ago in reply to hadleywhite +3 suggested

You don't need your PCB CAD to do simulation - for two reasons:

1) LTSpice is free from Linear Technology and is better than ANY bundled Spice package.
2) You almost never want to simulate the actual…

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0 gadget.iom over 6 years ago

What elements are you looking for in an EDA package?
Just schematic capture and PCB layout?
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0 gadget.iom over 6 years ago

What elements are you looking for in an EDA package?
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0 hadleywhite over 6 years ago in reply to gadget.iom

It would be better that EDA tool can do schematic capture, Spice simulation and PCB Layout for free
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0 michaelkellett over 6 years ago in reply to hadleywhite

You don't need your PCB CAD to do simulation - for two reasons:

1) LTSpice is free from Linear Technology and is better than ANY bundled Spice package.
2) You almost never want to simulate the actual circuit - just bits of it - so the ability to attempt a one click simulation is of no practical use.

For free PCB CAD look at KiCad - it's free as in beer and liberty (and seems to be getting more popular).

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