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Is anyone on this list using, or rather paying to be a beta tester for, 
AutoTrax EDA?

I've been using CircuitMaker and TraxMaker for the past several years 
with no trouble to speak of but Altium (ProTel) has now bought the 
software and decided not to support it any longer a couple of years 
ago.  I'm investigating other packages that are load and go.  Autotrax 
seemed to be a very good buy but there seem to be an awful lot of users 
whose systems crash, boards go away when reloaded, and other problems 
indicative of serious problems.

Eagle looks to be too much of a learning curve just from looking at the 
demo.

Does anyone have other suggestions in the < $1,500.00 or so package 
range?  The CM/TM package can also do analog/digital/mixed signal 
simulations as well as auto routing, but I'm too much of a control freak 
to worry about auto routing too terribly much.

Any shared experiences would be appreciated.


REB


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