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Started by Andy, August 18, 2003, 10:59:59 PM

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Which do you use more?

Express PCB
11 (52.4%)
Eagle CAD
3 (14.3%)
Easy Trax
2 (9.5%)
Other
5 (23.8%)

Total Members Voted: 19

Voting closed: August 28, 2003, 10:59:59 PM

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Andy

August 18, 2003, 10:59:59 PM
Which program do you use most?  I hope I got the most common ones listed!!
Andy

The Tone God

#1
August 19, 2003, 04:09:52 AM
PCB for us unix geeks.

Andrew

Jay Doyle

#2
August 19, 2003, 09:13:46 AM
I would suggest trying Proteus LITE, small learning curve and prints in bitmap to scale.

Has been great for me.

Jay Doyle

peterc

#3
August 19, 2003, 05:10:15 PM
I use the Circuitmaker/Traxmaker combo. The PCB (Traxmaker) program is good as is Circuitmaker & it's simulator.

Peter

mike darling

#4
August 19, 2003, 09:23:24 PM
have used PCBwarrior for osx successfully for several projects, and highly reccomend it.

used pcb and eagle on linux and they're OK. Price is right.

Did a couple large layouts in OrCAD 9.2 (windoze ... got a copy through school) and it's by far the best, though also the most expensive. It is nice being able to take a design from capture to pspice to layout so easily.

mojotron

#5
January 09, 2005, 02:05:52 PM
Quote from: mike darlinghave used PCBwarrior for osx successfully for several projects, and highly reccomend it.

used pcb and eagle on linux and they're OK. Price is right.

Did a couple large layouts in OrCAD 9.2 (windoze ... got a copy through school) and it's by far the best, though also the most expensive. It is nice being able to take a design from capture to pspice to layout so easily.

Has anyone used the OrCAD 10 demo version - there's a size limitation - I'm wondering what the size limitation is?

MartyB

#6
January 09, 2005, 08:04:15 PM
Express PCB and MS Paint.  I do a clipboard screenshot of my express pcb layout sometimes and convert it into a .BMP file, and use that to make a toner transfer layout.
MartyB
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ErikMiller

#7
January 09, 2005, 09:25:57 PM
Eagle CAD. Used it for every Euthymia product so far and haven't found anything better. There are some ways it could work better, but it's great for the price.

I also just bought Build Your Own PCB, which is an Eagle CAD how-to.

Bucksears

#8
January 09, 2005, 10:59:27 PM
Adobe Illustrator.
All kinds of shapes, stroke weights, etc, makes layout designing really doable.

SirPoonga

#9
January 09, 2005, 11:12:41 PM
I used the combo of expresssch and expresspcb.  I just did the ruby amp.  It was much easier to configure the schematic then do a layout with the helf of the ExpressPCB's ability to tell you what parts connect together.
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