Homebrew PCBs

"Richard" <rwskinner@...> writes:
> CAD software, well, I'm not successful with that yet.  I got real
> good with Windraft and WinBoard from Ivex but they went out of
> business.  I know have to learn Eagle, but their constraints on PCB
> Size is a joke.

Tooting my own horn here, but... have you tried gEDA and PCB?  They
are free (beer and speech) and have no intrinsic limits.  I once
calculated that the largest board PCB could support was a quarter mile
square, at 0.01 mil resolution (although 32"x32" is a more "stable"
limit, for historical reasons).  It also supports an essentially
unlimited number of copper layers (the default build is 8 active
layers out of 16 max, but you can easily compile it for more).

The development group is fairly active at the moment, too.