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[Benoît Roehr <benoit.roehr.ec@xxxxxxxxx>]

To speak frankly, Altium is looking very good !

It was not really that functionalities were lacking, I just hadn't had the
time to dig into it properly. For what I remember I tried different EDAs at
this time: Eagle, Proteus, KiCad, gEDA. The boss in the company I worked
for decided to stick to Proteus rather than switching to Altium, and KiCad
were not looking better than Proteus or Eagle. I decided to stick to Altium
for my personal projects, waiting for KiCad to improve. Now is the time ;)

A+,
Benoît

2014-09-10 15:06 GMT+02:00 A. V. Dolganoff <adolganov@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Salut to fellow Frenchie ;)
>
> Can you elaborate more on what aspects of Kicad you didn't like the
> most the last time?
>
> a+, Alexei.
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Benoît Roehr <benoit.roehr.ec@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > First of all I really want to thank you all for the great improvements
> KiCad
> > had recently. The last time I tried to use it (about a year ago) I made
> the
> > decision to return to Altium because of the lake of important features.
> >
> > Now that CERN is also on board, switching to KiCad, helping and following
> > the development sounds really exciting :}
> >
> > A bit about me: I live in Strasbourg and I work for the Strasbourg
> > University in Cronenbourg as an electronic technician since one week.
> Before
> > that I was one of the head hardware designer of Ideovitra, and I worked
> on
> > the sensybee products for two years.
> >
> > My competences are quite wide: schematic capture and routing, board
> > prototyping and repairing, python, LabView and C++... I haven't done a
> lot
> > of code for computers, as I mostly make program for microcontrollers.
> >
> > I would be really glade to participate in the development of KiCad. I
> used
> > Altium a lot and at the moment it is still my favorite EDA, but Altium is
> > far from perfect. For example, the library management is very daunting,
> and
> > of course, it's not free and opensource.
> >
> > These next days, I will think about a project I could realize with KiCad
> to
> > take it on hand and dig into while keeping notes about what could be
> > improved, and/or bugs.
> >
> > Also, if help is needed somewhere else, just tell me what I can do I will
> > help, for sure.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Benoît
> >
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