Development Windows
Horizon EDA
Design printed circuit boards with Horizon EDA for Windows: manage electronic parts, draw schematics, route layouts and export fabrication files with a free, open-source EDA package.
- Operating system
- Windows versions in active support
- Architecture
- x64
- Download package
- MSI installer
The selected official release asset is horizon-eda-2.7.2-x64.msi. Older Windows versions may work but are outside publisher support; separate development builds are not this download.
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What is Horizon EDA?
Horizon EDA connects parts management, schematic capture and PCB layout in one electronic-design workflow. Its pool manager holds the parts, symbols and packages used by a project, while the schematic editor tracks electrical nets rather than treating a circuit as an unrelated collection of lines. It suits designing a board from its component library through to manufacturing output.
The board editor combines interactive routing with design-rule checks, including differential-pair routing. A 3D view helps inspect the assembled board, and STEP export carries the board and its component models into a mechanical CAD workflow. For fabrication, the documented outputs include Gerber and NC-Drill files; bills of materials and pick-and-place files support assembly.
There is an important distinction between interactive routing and automatic routing: an autorouter and SPICE-type circuit simulation are outside Horizon EDA’s stated scope. Use it for PCB design, not as a replacement for a circuit simulator. The schematic and board also do not share a continuously live netlist: save schematic changes and reload the board netlist, or use the documented Save and reload netlist action.
This entry links to the official version 2.7.2 Windows x64 MSI, not a development snapshot. The publisher supports only Windows versions in active support; older systems may run the software, but bugs specific to them are not supported. The screenshot is a publisher documentation illustration of the board editor, not evidence of a local installation or a capture of this exact Windows release.
What it offers
- Manage reusable electronic parts, symbols and packages through the pool manager.
- Draw net-aware schematics and carry the design into the PCB board editor.
- Route tracks and differential pairs interactively with design-rule checks.
- Inspect boards in 3D and export STEP data for mechanical CAD.
- Export Gerber, NC-Drill, bill-of-materials and pick-and-place files.
Good to know
- Automatic routing and SPICE-type simulation are outside the project’s stated scope.
- Only Windows versions in active support are supported; older-version-specific bugs will not be fixed.
- Schematic edits require saving and reloading the board netlist rather than assuming immediate synchronization.
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Sources
References used for this listing. Retrieval dates do not indicate hands-on testing.
- Horizon EDA - Download ↗Retrieved
- Horizon EDA ↗Retrieved
- Installation — horizon-eda 1.0 documentation ↗Retrieved
- Horizon EDA v2.7.2 — official release assets ↗Retrieved
- Feature overview — horizon-eda 1.0 documentation ↗Retrieved
- Non-Goals — horizon-eda 1.0 documentation ↗Retrieved
- Board Editor — horizon-eda 1.0 documentation ↗Retrieved
- GitHub - horizon-eda/horizon: Horizon is a free EDA package · GitHub ↗Retrieved
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