Just wanted to pop in and give a big thank you for making VeeCad, and especially making the full version available for free.

I'm a total noob trying to teach myself electronics, so far mostly working with solderless breadboards, and when I finally decided to make some of those more permanent, VeeCad was what enabled me to translate the circuit to stripboard neatly, and have an end result which just looked nice. When you can have this printed and stuck to the board, then who needs to have a custom silkscreened PCB? Also, because this is a proper CAD, I had the motivation to get into using KiCad as schematic editor which I'm sure will pay dividends in the future.

If I had any "wouldn't it be nice if", then it would probably be mostly about QoL additions to custom outline editor - like, being able to not only add pins to custom outlines, but also leads (which would be stretchable like normal leads for axial and radial components, but unlike those, wouldn't reposition the outline "body" at all) and wire attach points for parts with wires (would be like a pin, but the only thing it would connect to would be a wire point right on top of it - tracks would be ignored). Also, being able to copy & paste in custom outline editor would be a great help in making new outlines, but I'm sure this one is on a list somewhere already.

But overall, VeeCad is awesome as it is, and I'm sure to keep using it forever. Thanks again!