: Engineering students at certain institutions (like Oregon State University ) may have access to site-licensed versions via their university’s IT portal.
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KiCad has a PADS importer plugin (pads2kicad) that can translate simple 2-layer boards from PADS 9.5 ASCII exports. : Engineering students at certain institutions (like Oregon