18 Feb
2010
18 Feb
'10
3:13 a.m.
On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Keith M wrote:
Good PCB design is hard to do for hobbyist. There is
essentially
no DECENT free software. Eagle is the closest, but then they have
the limitation of 2" x 2"(or something) boards on the free
version. So you take people NEW to PCBs and you place arbitrary
limits which makes it even harder for them to succeed.
No, there's *excellent* free software. For one, PCB (http://
pcb.gpleda.org/) is as good as all but the very best five-digit-
pricetag commercial stuff I've seen, and it's getting better
literally every week. I've done a number of both commercial and
hobby designs with it, as have many others.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL