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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] PCB DESIGN industry standard

2007-11-14 by Stefan Trethan

As others have said Protel(Altium) and Orcad are definitely some of
"the" names in the business.
But there is not really any problem to use another decent sofware
since gerber is the accepted standard for production, and just about
any non-toy software can produce that.
I don't think there is an easy answer to which is best, especially if
the budget is not unlimited. Depending on the complexity a much
simpler software will do, as long as you can work with it.
Many design packages can also export/import from other brands, but i'm
not sure how well that works in reality.

ST

On Nov 13, 2007 5:07 AM, AD5VJ  Bob <rtnmi@...> wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me what is considered the standard commercial application in the electronics industry for PCB design? Or is
> there one??
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