Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:37:20 -0400, you wrote:

Eagle is not that bad, especially when you consider that it's not
really made for the windows environment. Version 5 is decent enough,
works, and libraries are not that bad once you understand how they
work.

That said, if you don't like it, then that's that. No other
suggestions to offer, although I have made PC boards with corel draw.
Possible, but you have to have your own libraries (of course), no
ratsnest, no schematic capture.

Harvey


>Not too long ago I looked at gEDA PCB but . . . it's another operating
>system (LINUX) to learn and another windowing system (X11) to learn, in
>addition to learning gEDA PCB itself. Seemed a daunting task and so I
>kept looking.
>
>It's been a while and I'm still casting about for software with which to
>make PCB's :-\
>
>Steve K8JQ
>
>DJ Delorie wrote:
>> "RICHARD HEILIGER" <rdheiliger@...> writes:
>>
>>> I gave up and now use the free pcb programs from Eagle or DipTrace
>>> for double sided boards. Both have the ability to print any layer. I
>>> think the libraries in either are a pain to use, and end up making
>>> most of my own components.
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried gEDA's PCB? It has export options specifically
>> designed for toner transfer.
>>
>>