PCBs and PCB layout

I use KiCad 4. It’s not intuitive, but quite productive to use once you know how to use it. It’s open source and is being developed by CERN.

There’s a community forum and a series of great tutorials (unfortunately in no particular order).

There’s also LibrePCB that is being developed by @urban, but as far as I know it’s not production ready yet, right?

I ordered both at FusionPCB and DirtyPCB. The former has good quality and fast production, but shipping to Switzerland costs 29$. The quality of the latter is less good but still definitely good enough, and it has free shipping (takes a few weeks though).

They’re both pretty simple to use, you export the Gerber files and upload them to the website of the PCB service. As far as I know, neither of them supports pick & place.

DirtyPCB

FusionPCB