[sdiy] PCB Design Software?

[Adam Schabtach]

I've used DipTrace (www.diptrace.com) for several boards, both commercially
fabricated from Gerber files and hand-etched, and have been quite happy with
both the product and the company's customer support. They have a free
version, a time-limited evaluation version, and several "tiers" of licensing
(pin count vs. price, basically).

> Do any of the mentioned tools handle back annotation from the pcb to the
> schematic?  For example if you want to resequence the reference
> designators after layout so that they increment left-to-right,
> top-to-bottom.

DipTrace has this, I believe.

--Adam