[sdiy] PCB Design Software?

[Rainer Buchty]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, rob wrote:

> New components are quick to design, and auto routing is fine once you 
> get used to it.

You really have designs where the Eagle autorouter is of any help?

Although I own a full-blown Eagle pro license w/ all 3 modules (got it 
for rather little money from the remains of a defunct company, and 
Cadsoft was happy to transfer the license), I didn't find the autorouter 
very useful, especially when it comes to very space- and 
layer-restricted designs.

And when it finally spits out a layout, then I'm rather unsatisfied with 
the result (read: way too many vias, very unstructured layout).

But the schematics and PCB editor is rather easy to use. There's still 
improvement possible regarding the library system and setting up own 
devices/libraries, but then I remember the horrors of 3.x library 
handling far too well...

Rainer