What's the most Mac-friendly PCB Cad?

[Bricksnbeatles]

I rarely ever use the PC desktop that I have diptrace installed on (the only PCB cad I actually sorta know how to use), and the mac OS version of diptrace is absolutely horrible. Anyone have reccomendations for a good mac-friendly cad? I really want to get some layouts worked out, and don't want to be stuck hunched over in the dark corner where my desktop resides.

 

[CR0SSBL4DE]

I used KiCAD on windows, linux and mac, and I have nothing but good things to say about it. And it's not only free, but open source!

 

[derevaun]

I use EasyEDA on both platforms. I don't like it with just the trackpad. It has a fairly smooth integration for ordering from JLCPCB.

 

[szukalski]

Kicad. By far the best.

 

[neiltheseal]

I use a mac and Eas EDA is pretty easy.

 

[jimilee]

I use eagle on both my Macs.

 

[Stickman393]

Haven't tried it on Mac, but kicad is cool AF. Pretty intuitive, for the most part.

 

[74hc]

I use KiCad on my 2024 Macbook Air. Nothing but praise with an exception of major release upgrades.

I dislike the "center and warp cursor on zoom" though.

 

[JTEX]

^can't that be turned off in the preferences?

 

[falco_femoralis]

What I did was purchase a 16GB flash drive, download Windows 10 from the Microsoft website (found it googling windows for mac/boot camp download etc etc), which was free somehow, and set up Bootcamp as a partition on my hard drive so I can run Diptrace natively.

Ever since I upgraded to Catalina (yep) I can't run Wine, but Bootcamp has worked out pretty well for programs that require Windows.

I just have to restart my computer when switching to Windows, but that's no big deal.

 

[ozmuth]

Ive used both Kicad and Eagle on Mac and they both work well… i would pick kicad over eagle today seems as eagle will soon been abandonware.