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Re: new pcb layout program..

2008-03-22 by martin_schoenegg

> > 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

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