[sdiy] Schematics Software

[Terry Shultz]

FYI,

ORCAD 16.6 Is free on the limited version. I Use the Paid version anyway but I started with the free version and I also use Altium tools. I just pay the maintenance. fees every year.

I have Capilano-Douglas on my Mac works for most 2 or 4 layer designs but not for BGA.

As I build board with BGA’s, Free tools limit me on number of layers.

The older Protel 99SE was acquired by Altium and worked quite well.

Soory, Eagle became  a non starter when I needed more capability.

Controlled impudence on memory design and BGA’s sort of make it mandatory for me to move up the food chain a bit.

just my 2 1/2 cents.

Terry
> On May 20, 2017, at 9:38 PM, matt holland <matt at mattholland.org> wrote:
> 
> At least in the past free Eagle had a two page limitation which encouraged designers to cram things into less space than they should otherwise take for readability.
> 
> I also really dislike it's system of storing power pins in separate symbols and the weird generic net and pin names with $ signs everywhere. Horrible default colors as well.
> 
> mh
> 
> On May 20, 2017 11:27 AM, "Ingo Debus" <igg.debus at gmail.com <mailto:igg.debus at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> > Am 20.05.2017 um 03:01 schrieb David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca <mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca>>:
> >
> > They beat the hell out of Eagle
> > schematics, though (which I used to get from Dan at Intellijel, who did all
> > the layouts of my designs, and I found them very difficult to read).
> 
> Is there something inherent to Eagle that leads to difficult to read schematics? I mean, you can always draw non-legible schematics, no matter which tool you use, but that’s not the point here.
> 
> Unlike now, in earlier versions AFAIR it was not possible to move parts of a schematic from one page to another. If you didn’t plan carefully, this could lead to pretty crammed sheets. But this problem is gone now.
> 
> Ingo
> 
> 
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