Homebrew PCBs

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:16:28 +0100, Lez <lez.briddon@...> wrote:

> Diptrace is so damn easy to use for someone who has never used anything
> before its beyond belief, forget the schematic bit just jump into pcb
> layout, drop parts where you want them, link the pins, press autorout and
> its done!

That'll only work for small circuts, unless you have a high capacity brain.
Errors are greatly reduced if the software can electrically check the  
layout against a schematic.
I will not comment on autorouting, for i might rant.

> I did try eagle, but kept getting a feeling of a dos program pretending  
> to
> be a windows app, and being a son of gates I just could not use  
> it.........


lol...
I couldn't handle it either. That UI is hard stuff.
I think it actually tried especially hard _not_ to be a windows app, just  
to spite me. I guess once you build up a tolerance you can actually use  
the software quite well, maybe, i'll never know.

ST