Hi All,
I am thinking of buying AutoTRAX EDA (not the DOS Protel version!). I have demo'ed virtually every low-cost schematic/layout package* out there, and they all have certain issues -- some quite major. And while I'm use to working with Protel and PADS (which have issues too!), I cannot really afford those packages myself, but I was wondering if anyone has any feelings about AutoTRAX EDA, either pro or con, for professional board design. (I don't want to buy this package and find that it FUBARD up a $2,000 test board -- and made me look like a fool too!). The only major problem I found with this incredibly fair priced software would normally be a real deal breaker, which is it actually lets you delete nets and footprints in the PCB section after you import your schematic Netlist!! And not only that, it won't say anything about your deletion when you run the DRC! But I figure that if I know about that truly bizarre issue, I can be on the lookout for it. Any thoughts on using AutoTRAX EDA for professional PCB design (so far, to me, it seems to be the best of the low-cost packages...)?
Thanks!
-Bill
*Eagle, Easy-PC, DIPTrace, KICAD, CADint, PerformanceEDA, etc.