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FreePCB is a free, open-source PCB layout editor for Windows, that I starting writing because I was unhappy with currently available free or low-cost PCB editors. The ones that I tried were either crippled by pin and layer limits, or buggy and difficult to use. I finally decided that any idiot could write a better one, and I was just the idiot to do it! This user guide contains chapters on the PCB design process and the FreePCB user interface, and a tutorial which takes the user through the process of creating a PCB from a schematic and a netlist file. In the process it describes most of the main features of FreePCB. FreePCB was written for Microsoft Windows, but it can run under Linux by using Wine, or on Macintosh computers with VirtualPC. The source code is copyrighted but released under the GNU General Public License (version 2 or later).