[sdiy] PCB Design Software

[s.thomas]

Hi  all ..just discovered there is a yahoo group for autotrax eda :-
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/autotrax/

cheers
steve thomas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Stinchcombe" <tim102 at tstinchcombe.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "'Glen'" <mclilith at charter.net>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 10:15 AM
Subject: RE: [sdiy] PCB Design Software


> Hi Glen,
>
> > Is anyone familiar with AutoTRAX EDA?
> >
> > Version 2.01 came out recently and the full version is
> > available at a special discount, if you act before July 14th.
> > It's currently $95, instead of $495.
> >
> > That's a pretty deep discount, but is the software very good?
> > If I understand correctly, it does schematic capture, circuit
> > board layout, and Spice simulation. I currently have no
> > software in those categories, and would like to hear comments
> > from people who might be familiar with this product.
>
> There was an interesting thread on sci.electronics.cad a few weeks ago
about
> this software:
>
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=7fb54666.03062800
>
30.6e274236%40posting.google.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dautotrax%2Bgroup:
>
sci.electronics.cad%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dsci.electronics
> .cad%26sa%3DG%26scoring%3Dd
>
> (thread was titled: 'Incredible and its free' which might be easier to
> search on).
>
> In it there are some not very complementary comments about it's robustness
> and what the author is trying to do with it (until a few weeks ago it was
> totally free - the thought being that the guy has been trying to lock
people
> into it, and now is going to hit them by charging for upgrades etc.). The
> kind of 'is this any good' or 'what's the best simulation package'
question
> is often raised there, so with some searching you will probably find
various
> comments on different packages.
>
> A nice page of links to many packages (but some are about out-of-date) is:
>
> http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/ECADList.html
>
> Tim
> __________________________________________________________
> Tim Stinchcombe
>
> Cheltenham, Glos, UK
> email: tim102 at tstinchcombe.freeserve.co.uk
>
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