It's not an on-ramp, it's a time-wasting distraction detour from your actual on-ramp.
Every minute you spend figuring out how to do something in fritzing is a minute you could have spent figuring out the same thing in kicad, which you will end up doing eventually anyway, I promise you, garanteed. All this gets you is some badly designed boards and wasted time.
There are gobs of youtube videos for the absolute beginner which takes care of taking you from zero to simple pcb in a few minutes. Then you figure out a lot of other details as you encounter needs for them over time.
It doesn't have to be kicad either. If you don't mind a commercial proprietary product, Eagle is fine too. It's workflow is a little different but not bad. In fact it's an industry standard at a low level.
Agreed. Also, if you include software that costs money, Altium is in my opinion by far the most user-friendly program in the ECAD industry (I've spent a lot of time in Altium and Cadence, and a bit of time in Eagle).
If your design is open-source, Altium CircuitMaker is a free version of Altium specifically for open-source hardware projects:
It's not an on-ramp, it's a time-wasting distraction detour from your actual on-ramp.
Every minute you spend figuring out how to do something in fritzing is a minute you could have spent figuring out the same thing in kicad, which you will end up doing eventually anyway, I promise you, garanteed. All this gets you is some badly designed boards and wasted time.
There are gobs of youtube videos for the absolute beginner which takes care of taking you from zero to simple pcb in a few minutes. Then you figure out a lot of other details as you encounter needs for them over time.
It doesn't have to be kicad either. If you don't mind a commercial proprietary product, Eagle is fine too. It's workflow is a little different but not bad. In fact it's an industry standard at a low level.