brezal / horizon

Horizon is a free EDA package

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.

Wanna chat about the project? Join #horizon on freenode

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
• 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

Included third-party software

• https://github.com/nlohmann/json/
• http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php
• https://github.com/ivanfratric/polypartition/
• https://github.com/jhasse/poly2tri
• https://qcad.org/en/what-is-dxflib
• https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/tree/pcbnew/router
• https://github.com/russdill/pybis