Homebrew PCBs

>From: "MM" <T_dragger44@...>
>Reply-To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] PCB design software
>Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 21:50:44 -0500
>
>Hello to all...  New member here and not real knowledgeable regarding PCBs 
>but am hoping to learn.  If you guys can stand a few "neophyte" type 
>questions for a while, I would be most appreciative.
>
>I joined because I am wanting to learn how to design and build a few 
>simple, small boards; initially just two-sided, plated hole boards.  Not 
>sure I really want to actually make them at first, may want to just send 
>the design off to a prototyping house to have them made in very small 
>quantities.
>
>Can anyone recommend a good, but fairly inexpensive, "starter" software 
>program that I could learn to use and would produce the file types 
>(whatever they are) that are compatible for PCB manufacture?  Later on I 
>may need to upgrade to something more sophisticated, but for now, I'd like 
>to keep it pretty simple and not too expensive.


Easy-PC is very good, I used it for years:

http://www.numberone.com

I now use Pulsonix which is a professional product from the same company:

http://www.pulsoniox.com

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Leon Heller, G1HSM Tel: +44 1424 423947
Email:leon_heller@...
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