It does DXF import/export although I have never used that myself.
Autocad is also one of those age old software products that do things
their way and to hell with everyone else. Maybe they should pair up
with Eagle. ;-)
If you are used to it you can deal with that, but I couldn't even make
a simple drawing. I make pretty much all of my mechanical drawings in
Target. Enough for front panels and such but of course not a proper
mechanical CAD system.
250 pins is really not much, I've hit that number regularly, but I
have a 800pin license.
To a large extent it's what you are used to. But some software is just
easier to get used to than others, and I think there is always a limit
to productivity you can reach, as in number of clicks or time it takes
to do something. With Eagle I find that to be pretty poor (example:
change a pad on a footprint).
ST
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:36 PM, sailingto <sailingtoo@...> wrote:
> Stefan - will target import dxf or AutoCAD files? That one looks like it might be interesting and 2 layers/250 pins will hold me a while.
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> I've used AutoCAD for industrial electrical/Instrument design for many years, but it's not the best for electronic PCB work.
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