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Subject: Re: new pcb layout program..

From: "martin_schoenegg" <Martin.Schoenegg@...>
Date: 2008-03-22

> > However the "nudge routing" is very very interesting. I hand
route a
> > lot of boards and I would love to have a feature like this.
> I had a little play with Altium. It will let you push existing
tracks
> aside as you drag a new track on the board. Good fun.
>
> Of course, it will cost you all your disposable income for 10 years
and
> the soul of your first-born if you want your own copy so that's not
very
> practical.

I do my PCBs with Mentor Graphics Pinacle PCB @ work. A very great
tool, but I will never pay such much money for me personal. There are
a lot of very useful functions in it especially for automated
assisted manual routing. And I'm sure, I use only a little subset of
all possibilities ;-)

Martin