Why Choose KiCad over Eagle?

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@Krazy_OldGuy

4. One feature that Protel had was the ability to export the schematic symbols used in a design into a separate design library (the PCB side always included footprints in the design), which makes it easier to share designs between different people. I get your design PLUS all of the schematic and PCB symbols, so I can see what YOU had immediately.

KiCad has a cache file of the eeschema libraries and embed all footprints inside the pcb board file…

-cache.lib: …​ a local copy of all the symbols used in the corresponding schematic, so that when the folder containing a KiCad project is copied to a different PC, the schematic can still be opened and printed and will still look the same as the original draughtsperson intended - even if that other PC does not have those symbols in its main libraries (or has symbols that coincidentally have the same name but are completely different).

then the project is portable, unless for 3d models… this can be achieved using the same configuration for the ‘KISYS3DMOD’ or using a relative path to project folder through ‘KIPRJMOD’ environment variable

KiCAD demo project ready to use

Hi, I want to make a quick demo to my collegues to convince them to move to Kcad 4.0.4. Could someone point me a nice project ready to use? Ready to show schematic, pcb with routs and 3D demo? The 3D view must show the components footprints. Thank you, Antony