Homebrew PCBs

Maybe it's time for him to learn a real EDA program?

I can see the advantage of a normal CAD, you aren't limited by the constraints a PCB layout software may impose, but it's no doubt more tedious to do it that way.

I would suggest KiCAD, it's very easy to use, but it's not limiting either.

It's also easy to change things on the fly, say a pad is too small, just right click on it, choose "edit pad" and change it.

In Eagle it seems you must make a new footprint and change it (of course KiCAD can do this too but you don't _have_ to do it that way)



--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Sage" <davesage12@...> wrote:
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> My friend has been successfully making circuit boards with AutoCad for
> several years and has been using DXF to HPGL to Gerber which is quite
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