FreePCB User Guide

Version 1.2

 

Allan Wright

 August 14, 2005

 

1. Introduction

FreePCB is a free, open-source PCB layout editor for Windows, that I starting writing because I was unhappy with currently available free or low-cost PCB editors. The ones that I tried were either crippled by pin and layer limits, or buggy and difficult to use. I finally decided that any idiot could write a better one, and I was just the idiot to do it!

This user guide contains chapters on the PCB design process and the FreePCB user interface, and a tutorial which takes the user through the process of creating a PCB from a schematic and a netlist file. In the process it describes all of the main features of FreePCB.

Currently, FreePCB runs only on Windows.  The source code is copyrighted but released under the GNU General Public License (version 2 or later). The terms of the license are available here.

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Thanks for trying FreePCB.

1.1 What's new in version 1.2

Here are some of the new features that have been added since version 1.0:

 


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