Eagle works great for me. You can start off with basic schematic/board
editing.
As your skills and needs grow, you can get into more advanced things
like
editing the parts libraries, writing scripts and ULPs, etc.
It's an excellent tool, and I feel privileged that they make a
free version available.
Regards,
JJ
editing.
As your skills and needs grow, you can get into more advanced things
like
editing the parts libraries, writing scripts and ULPs, etc.
It's an excellent tool, and I feel privileged that they make a
free version available.
Regards,
JJ
On Thursday, Mar 25, 2004, at 00:25 US/Eastern, emailw8nf wrote:
> I've been a lurker on here for a while. I haven't seen much
> discussion of the layout software we experimenters like to use.
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> The last time I did any "volume" of homebrew PCBs, I just used
> something like Microsoft Paint!
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> But now, it seems there are many freeware or demoware software
> packages available for this work. I'm curious what people tend to
> use, and what the particular benefits are of the package chosen?
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> I've been using QCAD - has its ups and downs. Good news it can output
> a Gerber file, which can then be manipulated in any Gerber viewer, and
> printed/zoomed, etc. Also it ties together the schematic and the PC
> board, so once you're done with the schematic, you go to layout, move
> the parts around, and place traces to satisfy the rat's nest. But a
> lot of this is clumsy, and doing re-work is very tedious. It's also
> very time-consuming to create anything other than 90 degree straight
> lines with any accuracy. For those of us who are trying to roll out
> PC boards for things like 300 watt UHF amplifiers, that limitation can
> be a killer.
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> What do others use?
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> Kindly,
>
> Dave
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