Welcome to PCB Elegance!

PCB Elegance is a suite of circuit board design tools for Windows. Including schematic capture, board layout, and manufacturing file generation.

Features

  • Free and open source.

  • Easy to learn. The user interface is logical, follows modern conventions, and is consistent across the different tools.

  • Fast zoom and panning with the mouse.

  • Able to handle complex designs. 2000+ components, 40000+ traces are no problem. A Pentium motherboard is included as an example design.

  • Keyboard shortcuts are listed next to each menu item so may be learned as you go. They can also be modified.

  • Colours of schematic and layout editors can be changed. Bicoloured patterns are supported in the layout editor.

  • Route with online DRC, dynamic rats nest, trace dragging.

  • Active schematic select allows selecting groups of layout components from the schematic editor.

  • Edit parameters of multiple components at once.

  • Schematic symbol editor allows the creation of complex schematic symbols quickly. Symbol libraries are included.

  • Geometry editor contains wizards for integrated circuits DIP, SOIC, BGA, etc.

  • Context sensitive help.

  • Generates gerber output plots.

  • ... see the features list for more.

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