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Sarvesaa:
Hey all,

I completed my first semester and I am shortly going to join the second semester of my EEE degree. My college is going to introduce students to EDA and they took EasyEDA as preferred software.
Would you prefer KiCad or EasyEDA for begineers like students.

I designed few circuits in KiCad and like it more than EasyEDA.


Thanks

ataradov:
KiCad. Anything online is bound to shut down or start charging eventually and you will have no recourse.

But if this is just for education where half the class will not care and will not end up doing EE anyway, then either works.

kripton2035:
easyeda is an online tool, and kicad is local to your computer.
this is enough for me to choose kicad ...
but for a student classroom it may be easier to just connect to an online web site, and not have to maintain local apps on computers.

tooki:
FYI, there is also an offline version of EasyEDA. In theory that should keep running even without internet — provided you have saved local copies of your projects, of course.

EasyEDA is, IMHO, easier to use. Not only because it does less, but because the usability is more thought-out. (They clearly took a lot of inspiration from Altium, which in this case is a good thing.) But kicad is more capable, and because it’s not based on web technologies, it’s more responsive. (Not that EasyEDA is bad in that regard, either.)

For absolute beginners who aren’t going to use any advanced features (or even midrange ones), I’d use EasyEDA. The learning curve is much shallower.

kripton2035:
I tried easyeda "offline" once ago, but as far as I remember, it is only some encapsuled web browser that connects to the main web site !

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