[sdiy] PCB Pool CAD software: Target 3001

[Neil Johnson]

Hi Sven,

> I worked with the Target 3000 for some time now and am not sure if it's
> good or bad. it has many nice features and if you have worked with it
> for some time you can use it without looking at the monitor, but there
> are some bugs too. sometimes it simply shuts down (of course without
> saving the work before) and sometimes it just doasn't do what it should.
> the help-files are lame too, very unhelpful.

Thanks for the summary.  I had a quick play last night, and while I accept
that many things are just due to being new to the program, there were
several things that made me blink in annoyance.  The overload on features
can be so tempting to think the tool _must_ be good, but I wanted to know
if that was just the "Christmas Tree" effect or something more.

At the moment I am trying out the free version of Eagle, which seems to
have some nice features, while perhaps not having as many features as
Target.  I am beginning to think that is a good thing :-)

> pcb-pool itself is good.

Agreed.  I've used them before, and while the prives may not be the
cheapest, they do make it easy and they do know what they're doing.

Cheers,
Neil

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