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.

Included third-party software

Directory in 3rd_party	Project	Version	URL	License
nlohmann	JSON for Modern C++	3.10.3	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	3.26.4	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
router	KiCad router	6.0.4	https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/tree/6.0.4/pcbnew/router	GPLv3
sexpr	KiCad s-expression parser	6.0.4	https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/tree/6.0.4/libs/sexpr	GPLv3
catch2	Catch2	3.0.1	https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2/releases/tag/v3.0.1	Boost
range-v3	range-v3	0.12.0	https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3/releases/tag/0.12.0	Boost

• https://github.com/russdill/pybis