Homebrew PCBs

PCB Wizard from New Wave Concepts. The library is a bit weak but the
UI is so friendly that its a snap to make a new library component.

PCB Wizard is the only PCB-CAD program I have ever seen that at all
adheres to Microsoft interface standards. The UI navigation skills you
have from MS Word, Excel, Visio etc., etc, etc. will transfer to this
program. It is obvious how to do most things if you use any sort of
common PC program.

To be sure, it is a hobbiest grade tool. No one would ever be able to
make a PC motherboard with it. But I find the UI more than makes ups
for all of its short comings. I have to re-learn Eagle *every time*
becuase I don't use it enough to remember the click patterns to
activate functions. The click patterns don't make enough sense to me
to do any thing but wrote memorization of them.

I don't know for a fact, but it sure feels like most PCB-CAD programs
are trying to adhere to some UI standard that dates back to DOS or
even eariler. I find them quite alien.

With PCB Wizard I can just sit down, work, and work quickly. I don't
have to fight it.



--- In Homebrew_PCBs@...m, "jdizzlemynizzal"
<jdizzlemynizzal@...> wrote:
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> The program database on this group is a bit small. Name yours, and why
> you considre it better than average.
>