Just curious about what everyone uses.  I've been using Orcad PCB editor.

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:19:52 -0500, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and "Joel" <j...@gmail.com> instead replied:

>Just curious about what everyone uses.  I've been using Orcad PCB editor.

http://ezr2000plus.com/index_files/Page371.htm

Brilliant! Easy to learn and use. Very capable. Don't let the price
fool you.
--
Ray

On 2008-04-07, Joel <j...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just curious about what everyone uses.  I've been using Orcad PCB editor.

I use Eagle.  It's cheap, and it runs on both Linux and OSX.  I
tried open-source gEDA stuff once upon a time, but the
learning curve was a bit too tough for me.

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Joel wrote:
> Just curious about what everyone uses.  I've been using Orcad PCB editor.


Been using Eagle since about 2000:

http://www.cadsoft.de/


Considering I now have probably a man*yr of effort into developing my 
own Eagle device libs, it's unlikely I'll ever change.  Unless I have to 
do something dramatically outside the scope of Eagle's abilities.

I have no complaints about Eagle.  It is one of the most stable programs 
I run.  (On Linux).

Consider carefully what software you choose, because if you put effort 
into package/device design, the longer you do it the more wedded you 
will be.



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gEDA/PCB exclusively.

I tried Eagle once, but one of the first footprints I used was wrong
(common part, subtle but fatal error) and the free version couldn't
handle the board I was designing.

On 7 Apr, 15:19, "Joel" <joelben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just curious about what everyone uses. =A0I've been using Orcad PCB editor=
.

http://www.pulsonix.com

Leon

Joel wrote:
> Just curious about what everyone uses.  I've been using Orcad PCB editor.

GSCHEM and PCB here under FreeBSD

"Joel" <j...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Just curious about what everyone uses.  I've been using Orcad PCB editor.

Easy PC - simple, cheap, stable a bit limited -  ie running out of steam on 
6 layer design with 256 pin BGAs where you start wishing you had fancy 
pin-swapping-to-optimise -routing features.

Michael Kellett

www.mkesc.co.uk

> Just curious about what everyone uses.  I've been using Orcad PCB editor.

I am using Altium Designer since two years.
It had some oddities in the beginning, but they have added some real nice 
things
I've been wishing for  in the latest versions.

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This is intended to be my personal opinion which may,
or may not be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB 

MK wrote:

> Easy PC - simple, cheap, stable a bit limited...you start wishing you had fancy 
> pin-swapping-to-optimise -routing features.

Well you have got some pin swapping, which should be fine on an FPGA or 
the like, where the IOs are (mostly) equivalent. It's definitely not 
fancy though- it can't warn you if you blithely swap with some power or 
special purpose pin, and it doesn't know about groupings, so gate or 
opamp swapping needs a bit of care. And it's not automatic at all, and 
you end up with a lot of schematic tidy-up when you've finished.

But I'd concur that it's a very good low- end package.

JS