12 Jun
2006
12 Jun
'06
5:25 p.m.
Alexandre Souza wrote:
Try Circad (now omniglyph) from Holophase
Software. This is the best PCB
CAD software I've ever used. Diptrace and Eagle are excellent
second-placers. Eagle has more libraries, and good support. Diptrace has
EXCELLENT support and the facility to convert eagle libraries to him. But
nothing is easy to use like circad. The option to load a BMP of a board and
trace lines on top of that (for reverse engineering) is G R E A T.
$1000 is my budget for the computer not the PCB and schematic layout
program. The biggest problem is the free software I have has no
component libraries for the odd stuff I am using like a 84 PLCC socket.
Tango PCB and schematic programs I liked.
I live in a apartment so having room for any big items like a real
computer are out -- front panel, 16K memory , Washing machine err Hard
drive :).