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How does this compare to Fritzing?

Hard to tell, since CircuitMaker is apparently not available yet.

I like Fritzing. I'm just a hobbyist, but having tried other PCB layout tools (Eagle, etc), Fritzing is the only one I've actually been able to be productive with.

Tried upverter?

Looks interesting, and I'll probably give it a try-out. But it seems to store all design data in the "cloud" without the option to export it out, which means I'd be unlikely to use it.

Yes - The default is to stroe your data in the cloud.

But you can always download all of your designs in an open well documented json format.

Does anything else have the capability to work with the json format? Or what can I convert it into?

See here: https://github.com/upverter/schematic-file-converter

Thanks man, very cool!

DesignSpark PCB for me. Eagle has probably the worst UI in existence. I've not used Fritzing but it looks overly simplistic.

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