In the case of Fritzing it is even worse, because you are not making a fair comparison at all, Fritzing is not designed for competing with DipTrace, or CircuitStudio, or kiCad or it is a fundamentally simpler system for people who have never before done any circuit or pcb design to get started, intuitively, easily, with no in-knowledge. But I do want to nominate DipTrace for inclusion in the series. What I do notice, though, is that you have no decoupling capacitors for your ICs. They spend more time in removing incompatibilities introduced by their copy protection tool than into the software problems. well. privacy statement. Fritzing is the most "friendly" of the free ones but has some features that make me uneasy - specifically removing connections to ground on the schematic when they are added to the ground plane - although it's still incomplete beta software for now. No. 2. Try to tap into a wire in the schematic view in Fritzing. I am working on a LED array board and as you can imagine each of the 16 LEDs has a connection to ground. We are creating a software tool, a community website and services in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, fostering an ecosystem that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with . @Daniel: should support auto-pouring of ground planes in board layout #58 This is the bare minimum of what schematic design can be. Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics. > Im hearing a lot of, its easy and not enough, heres how you do it. . It might be best in this instance to learn how create your own part for importing. (And I say this as someone who successfully used Fritzing for precisely one board, who recognises its weaknesses, and who has now moved on to KiCad, so I dont feel the need to defend the project other than to say that its as much in your power to make it better as it is those who developed it.