Program for PCB/Circuit Design

Probably none. Just feed them to laser photoplotters.

PCB makers don't usually lay out the circuits -- their customers usually do.

There are a variety of PCB layout packages out there, if you look.

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Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services

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Op 22 Oct 2006 13:45:32 -0700 schreef BoysBoysBoys:

Have you /never/ heard of searching the web? "pcb layout development" gave me 1.850.000 hits in google. Altavista a /least/ 50 pages.

Pulsonix.

CircuitCam.

"Pads"

What is the most widely used, or the standard?

round pads

He is joking. But PADS is a very popular layout package. Why do you care which one is most popular? What are you looking for?

No such animal. You may be able to generalize based on your locale, but even then...

No, they are one. Protel used to be the name of the company and the product. The company got renamed to Altium, the product got renamed to Altium Designer and P-CAD is a products that was purchased by them and lives further under the same name.

Rene

BoysBoysBoys wrote:

P-CAD was EOL'ed a couple of months ago.

Re: your posting style: This is NOT **Google Groups** (it is **USENET**) and MOST FOLKS DON'T SEE WHAT YOU SEE ON GOOGLE.

It is NOT necessary to re-post everything that was in the post to which you are responding. It *IS* a good idea to include SOME of that as **context**

--especially the name of the previous poster.

The general rule is TRIM and BOTTOM-POST. http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:SXIajvWUVHAJ:groups.google.com/support/b>>

I thought that's where you were going. That's a fool's errand. There are no guarantees that the one you learn will be used at any given company.[1] Learn CONCEPTS instead; they translate between apps.

When you see the prices for some of these packages, you may just wander over to KiCAD's site and get their open source offering (gratis and libre). . . [1] This reminds me of schools that, instead of using free software, piss away kilobucks on M$ software because "it's what they will encounter in industry". Hogwash. LEARN CONCEPTS--especially with pliant young minds.

Pads-PCB is a professional package, And expensive.

Schematic is is another tool. Or-cad is popular.

Learn the concepts. they translate across packages.

I have used Cadsoft Eagle for many years and have been very happy with it Before I bought I downloaded and tried everything I could get my hands on and at that time (8 years ago) some of the cheaper packages wouldn't run and some of the expensive packages were, well, expensive. I found Eagle to be the best price/performance tradeoff in my catagory (sub $1000)

Eagle is also one of the few choices for somebody running Linux or OS-X. Even the free version is darned useful, and the free support on the newsgroups is first-class.