Horizon EDA
Horizon EDA is an Electronic Design Automation package supporting an integrated end-to-end workflow for printed circuit board design including parts management and schematic entry.
See the docs for an overview of horizon's top features.
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Features for users so far
- Complete design flow from schematic entry to gerber export
- Sane library management
- Unified editor for everything from symbol to board
- Netlist-aware schematic editor
- KiCad's awesome interactive router
- Lag- and glitch-free rendering
- Rule-based DRC
- Hierarchical schematics
- Undo/redo
- Copy/paste for some objects
- Builds and runs on Linux and Windows
Features for developers
- Written in modern C++, legacy-free codebase!
- Uses JSON as on-disk format
- Uses Gtkmm3 for GUI
- OpenGL 3 accelerated rendering
- Everything is referenced by UUIDs
Getting Started
See the the docs. Debian packages are hosted by packagecloud.
Included third-party software
Directory in 3rd_party |
Project | Version | URL | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nlohmann | JSON for Modern C++ | 3.9.1 | https://github.com/nlohmann/json/ | MIT |
| clipper | Clipper | 6.4.2 | http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php | Boost |
| polypartition | polypartition | 7bdffb428b2b19ad1c43aa44c714dcc104177e84 | https://github.com/ivanfratric/polypartition/ | MIT |
| poly2tri | poly2tri | d949f3cd6f85b20728af0bdc454b090226068c73 | https://github.com/jhasse/poly2tri | 3-Clause BSD |
| dxflib | dxflib | 3.17.0 | https://qcad.org/en/90-dxflib | GPLv2 |
| alphanum | The Alphanum Algorithm | 1.3 | http://www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html | MIT |
| delaunator | Delaunator C++ | 6f2879967bc96a9bcdbacf418e560e9f2e170ace | https://github.com/abellgithub/delaunator-cpp | MIT |
| footag | footag | 99116328abe8f53e71831b446d35e93ee7128ef3 | https://github.com/endofexclusive/footag | GPLv3 |
| libzippp | libzip++ | ba9aec43f7760c3384bbe36f9a5454912f61307a | https://github.com/leezu/libzippp | ISC |
| router | KiCad router | 5.1.6 | https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/tree/5.1.6/pcbnew/router | GPLv3 |
| sexpr | KiCad s-expression parser | 5.1.6 | https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/tree/5.1.6/utils/kicad2step/sexpr | GPLv3 |