Now that WinDraft / WinBoard have gone out of business --- what are some good low $$ CAD software packages?
Ideas much appreciated.
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*+pipex-com-ECADList
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Try Kicad. it rund on Windows and Linux. Fine it at:
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Ian
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Check out Eagle
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It's user interface is a bit of a challenge for new users, but the user programming language and scripting can make a lots of repetitive things much easier.
-- James T. White
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This is a free PCB and schematic program.... I have not played with it yet, but now that it has help in English, I am going to see how it looks.
Jim Pennell
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Well.. Depending how much your time is worth versus how much you want to spend:
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This type of solution is good for me since my time is fairly worthless. Some of the items can be compiled under win32 w/ cygwin (PCB can:
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Sorry that I didn't get around to posting this earlier - for a while this used to be the inevitable first response to this sort of question. Terry lists some sixty program.
---------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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It does take a while to learn the keyboard shortcuts and such, but once you do a few boards it is very fast to use. I wouldn't switch to anything else even if it were not for the price issue. I really like the text based file formats. They allow me to script things like footprint generation.
-- Darrell Harmon
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