PCB design suite

[Wagner Marini]

Siggers,
is there any PCB design suite, like OrCad, under GPL/LGPL/etc license that
you recommend?

&wmarini

 

[News.Individual.NET]

is there any PCB design suite, like OrCad, under GPL/LGPL/etc license that
you recommend?

Eagle (www.cadsoft.de) is free for small boards (100x80mm), and has
everything a hobbyst needs.
Comercial suites like Protel, for example (not free) are bloated with
useless features for low-end hobbysts, like automatic distribution of
FPGA pins, fixed length tracks (the 'snakes' you see in motherboards and
fast video cards), capacitance correction, etc.
Eagle is pretty easy to use and not too expensive ($399 for the full
version) compared to US$7995 for protel...

hjf

 

[Rich Webb]

Siggers,
is there any PCB design suite, like OrCad, under GPL/LGPL/etc license that
you recommend?

Have you checked on Sourceforge?

 

[&wmarini]

I´ve checked before.... Searching for "PCB" I found lots of links.

thanks.

 

[Guest]

Have a look at TARGET3001.
It is a powerful CAD tool with a hugh library collection.
Best part the price is also down to earth.
..richard

Would recommend it.
Trial version is free to download.

 

[Hopkins]

I use Eagle http://www.cadsoft.de/ for the schematic part and
www.Pad2Pad.com as it allows you to import the Eagle schematic net list and
create larger boards for free.

I have found Eagle easy to use apart from the why you select parts.

Would like to know if there is someone than can make baords at low cost for
1 of for proto type work.

 

[Scott Seidman]

http://www.sparkfun.com/shop/index.php?shop=1&cat=86

I like Advanced Circuits (4pcb.com). They have a special $33 deal per
board, for a 3 board minimum, max 60 sq in per board, five day lead time.
If you're a student, they'll drop the minimum to one board. They take
gerber files.

Scott