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Anyone have advice on a decent affordable (under $100) program for 
laying out pc boards? Needs to run on a PC, handle 2 layer boards w/ 
legends and masks, netlist from schematic would be great, and output 
gerber files.

Please reply offlist, thanks.

Moe

Please reply to the list!  I know myself and a lot of
other people are VERY interested in this.

Thanks!
Shemp

> Anyone have advice on a decent affordable (under
> $100) program for 
> laying out pc boards? Needs to run on a PC, handle 2
> layer boards w/ 
> legends and masks, netlist from schematic would be
> great, and output 
> gerber files.
> 
> Please reply offlist, thanks.


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> Please reply to the list!  I know myself and a lot of
> other people are VERY interested in this.

Check out Eagle:

http://www.cadsoft.de

For $125 (for nonprofit work), gives you a 160x100mm board size with
includes an autorouter, schematic capture, and layout editor. They have
both Windows and UNIX versions available.

I've used this to create a couple of circuits and it works quite well.

-->Neil

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Neil Bradley            In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is not
Synthcom Systems, Inc.  king - he's a prisoner.
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I checked it out and it looks very nice. Unfortunately, the very 
first board I have to lay out is 11.5" long, not allowed except in 
their professional version.

Still looking,

Moe

>>>>
Check out Eagle:
http://www.cadsoft.de
<<<<

There is a lot to be said for using Protel EasyTrax. This was a commercial
program for DOS. It supports multiple layers though does not have the
schematic/netlist capability. The price however is right - it's free. How
many companies do you know that make their older programs free? There are no
other limits to the program, and it will work at 640x480 VGA in a DOS shell

Ken

>
>I checked it out and it looks very nice. Unfortunately, the very 
>first board I have to lay out is 11.5" long, not allowed except in 
>their professional version.
>
>Still looking,
>
>Moe
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Ken Stone   sasami@...  
Modular Synth PCBs for sale <http://www.blaze.net.au/~sasami/synth/>
Australian Miniature Horses & Ponies <http://www.blaze.net.au/~sasami/>

Even better is their Autotrax. It's a step above Easytrax and it's now
free too!!

http://www.protel.com/resources/downloads/index.html

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> From: sasami@... [mailto:sasami@...] 
> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 2:06 AM
> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [motm] Re: Affordable good pc layout program?
> 
> 
> There is a lot to be said for using Protel EasyTrax. This was 
> a commercial program for DOS. It supports multiple layers 
> though does not have the schematic/netlist capability. The 
> price however is right - it's free. How many companies do you 
> know that make their older programs free? There are no other 
> limits to the program, and it will work at 640x480 VGA in a DOS shell
> 
> Ken
> 
> >
> >I checked it out and it looks very nice. Unfortunately, the very
> >first board I have to lay out is 11.5" long, not allowed except in 
> >their professional version.
> >
> >Still looking,
> >
> >Moe
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If you can do it in 30 days, download the protel software.
www.protel.com 

That's the package I use on a regular basis.

Tony

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> From: mate_stubb [mailto:mate_stubb@...] 
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:12 PM
> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] Affordable good pc layout program?
> 
> 
> I checked it out and it looks very nice. Unfortunately, the very 
> first board I have to lay out is 11.5" long, not allowed except in 
> their professional version.
> 
> Still looking,
> 
> Moe
> 
> >>>>
> Check out Eagle:
> http://www.cadsoft.de
> <<<<
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