KiCad’s schematic capture includes all the tools you need for schematic design. Place symbols from KiCad’s included symbol library, draw wires to make circuits and manipulate your schematic drawing to make a final engineering design to take into PCB layout.
The electrical rules check (ERC) automatically verifies your schematic connections. It checks for output pin conflicts, missing drivers and unconnected pins.
Exports netlists in formats such as
Pspice
Cadstar
PcbNew
"Generic" XML
KiCad comes bundled with a vast library of symbols, footprints, and matching 3D models. They are community maintained so they never stop improving.
KiCad currently supports schematic designs from:
Altium Circuit Maker
Altium Circuit Studio
Altium Designer
CADSTAR
EAGLE
EasyEDA (JLCEDA)
LTSpice