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From: "Steve Greenfield" <alienrelics@...>
To: "Homebrew_PCBs Mailing List" <homebrew_pcbs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:23 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Which PCB CAD for someone entering the job market?


> Sigh... well, I knew I'd never get a consensus when I asked about this a
> year ago.
>
> So I'm going with Eagle for now because 1. I found a book about using it
> in the Half Price Bookstore, 2. Someone made a library for the PIC32MXxxxx
> series for which I'm doing a few projects, and 3. It is free or cheap.
>
> I graduate at the end of this year. If I put Eagle on my resume, do you
> think it will hurt or help?
>
> In my classes, AutoCAD is the official CAD, my instructor told me to
> choose which Schem. Capture/ PCB Router I would learn. There is a
> classroom budget for software, so I could pick something not free, but
> something that costs $2,000 to $15,000 isn't going to happen. I don't want
> something so limited that I can only put a few generic ICs on a board.
>
> I'm attending Bates Technical College, Electronic Engineering Technician
> course. While I'm here, I'm getting the CET I should have gotten long ago
> and going for the FCC commercial license.

It might be better to describe the PCBs you've designed, rather than mention
the package you used.

Leon