Homebrew PCBs

Phil (from Phil)..

I want to thank you for that note. I'd vaguely heard of DIPtrace, but
never hard anything about it. I've tried a bunch of PCB packages,
trying to find one that had as intuitive and simple a user interface
as the ancient Mentor system I used 20 years ago, in front of a
logically operating engine with a decent and solid built in auto-place
and auto-route.

I just gave DIPtrace a try and knocked out 2 boards in a couple of
hours. First rate! Thanks for that tip.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "pgdion1" <pgdion1@...> wrote:
>
> I use DipTrace. I really like it a lot for both schematic capture and
> routing. A couple of things took a little getting used to or searching
> to find but overall it's pretty straight forward and all of the
> packages work very well. It's really an excellent product. I really
> like hoe well the copper pours work.
> 
> I hand place the components and then run the Auto-Router. If I don't
> like it, I rip it all up, change the settings, and run it again. When
> I like what I see, I then rip up the few traces I don't like, hand
> push the others, and then route by hand the few remaining traces.
> There are usually just a few to deal with like this on each board.
> 
> - phil
> 
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Waggoner" <wagelec@>
> wrote:
> >
> >    Some one ask me what I use to route my pcbs. I use Eagle but I hand
> > route all of my traces.
> > 
> > Ive found that I can logically route my traces manually much better
> > than autorouting them. I takes a lot more time but there are much less
> > via's to contend with by placing manually.
> >
> > Dennis Waggoner
> >
>