I recently switched from Altium Designer to KiCad, because while I do have access to Altium Designer, I wanted it to be more accessible.<p>KiCad is quite good, once you get the hang of it and the differences between Altium. I was able to put together reasonably complicated boards (OSH Park level tolerances) without a problem. If you want to do stuff like DDR routing and the like I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s up to par, but most hobbyist projects (well, most projects in general) are very suited to KiCad.<p>I even designed an entire PCB on it from my Novena, which was pretty neat (2nd generation open source hardware!)<p>The oddest thing is that there&#x27;s no built in standard part creation wizard, there&#x27;s an online tool for it but it&#x27;s a bit less than ideal.