Basic PCB software for hobbyist ..... Is there any?

 


Please recommend a basic  PCB and schematic
layout software for the occasional hobbyist to
fabricate mostly single layer PCBs?
Any advise and links appreciated.
TIA  

 



http://www.geda.seul.org/
http://pcb.sourceforge.net/">http://pcb.sourceforge.net/

 

Eagle is highly recommended and the free version is quite useful for
most hobby class projects. www.cadsoft.de. The use of eagle for hobby
stuff is pretty much universal.

Chris

 


I would say *widely used*--but yeah.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.engineering.electrical/browse_frm/thread/cc1ba6a49e79a2b1/01ddbd021683a11e?q=hobbyist-demoware +free-version#01ddbd021683a11e

DJ Delorie is one of the authors of "PCB"
which runs natively on Linux and under Cygwin on Windoze.
It is open source software and is free (libre and gratis)
but because it is free do not think it is limited.

Last I checked, Terry Porter's site was down
but Terry has posted some links to photos
of significant work he has done with gEDA/PCB (as a professional).

 


Be sure and check out Terry Pinnell's list of ECAD packages at
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/terrypin/ECADList.html .


--
James T. White