[sdiy] What's your fav PCB package?

[Bert Schiettecatte]

What I've learned from buying eagle recently is that you can get a lot
out of its command line and scripting possibilities. It's all plain text
stuff, so you could automate a lot if your are on linux, for example.
I've been doing a board now over the past few days and I feel I can work
twice as fast as in protel. I think that the large amount of features in
a package like protel makes it impossible for me to get anything done,
you are always distracted by the next cool gizmo, etc. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Tim Ressel
> Sent: donderdag 18 augustus 2005 22:16
> To: Ingo Debus; diy synth
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] What's your fav PCB package?
> 
> 
> Yo,
> 
> Thanks to everyone who put in their two cents on this
> one. I must have about a quarter here. I think I'm on
> the right track with Eagle. Its in my price range.
> It's quirks are get-aroundable, and I've used it
> before. I'm tempted to use Pads or Protel, because
> that is what we have where I work. But I really want
> to own my own software. I have the idea of having to
> change.
> 
> You know, it would be nice to have a standard package
> for synth-diy. That way we could have a common library
> that everyone could use and contribute to. Or maybe
> have a common library that somehow works across
> different packages. Is that even possible?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> --TimR
> 
> 
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