Quote Originally Posted by SparkyLabs View Post
Kicad is good but I had to give up for professional work but the schematic side is OK once you work out the library nightmare. Diptrace has a free version but I'd not recommend wasting money on it...
It's not what the OP needs, but for designing PCBs I think KiCAD is worth persevering with. I have Altium on my work computer, but for me, the slight functionality it gains over KiCAD is negated by the software needing a licence to run. I also found Eagle and Diptrace easy enough to use, but again they cost money for anything serious.

Quote Originally Posted by A_Camera View Post
I use it also to generate PCB layout. Here is the latest thing I made with it:

https://adapting-camera.blogspot.se/...stretcher.html
Instead of making this PCB, you surely could have used a smaller series resistor for the LED a lower value, as the issue is just the low duty cycle? LEDs are fine with pulses of higher current, so long as the output is never stuck on...