16 Jun
2007
16 Jun
'07
10:20 a.m.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a
reasonably priced schematics
capture and layout program for either Windows or Mac OSX that can autoroute
do boards up to say 6? x 8?? When I say reasonable, I?m thinking $250 or
less.
Good options are:
- Eagle. Not too expensive in the "non-profit" version with boards up to
16x10 if I'm not mistaken. The UI is clunky and the autorouter does it work
in double sided boards.
- Diptrace. "work in progress" but a GREAT program, tons of libraries
(and convert eagle libraries to it!) and the developer is very active and
responsive for all kind of questions and bug reports. Made me delay the
purchase of the eagle license
- Circad - Best of all, but doesn't do autorouter (which I don't need
anyways) and very, very expensive. Ugh.
- Protel - there is a 30 day "trial" which you can build your board :o)
- KCad. Free but a good program, worth a look.
I'd stick with diptrace. I see nothing better than it