Homebrew PCBs

Markus Zingg wrote:
> As mentioned, Diptrace seems really ok for the price and seems a good 
> solution given your requierements. You should not forget that Eagle in 
> it's full unlimitted version costs 2 - 3 times the price, and Eagle also 
> is a package at the lower end of the spectrum. It just was a little 
> bummer for me to see that a modern, aparently freshly developped package 
> makes you go through loops just when you want to assign a 49k value to a 
> resistor and would like to have visible feedback of this in the 
> schematic but otherwise is having features which compared to this are 
> more in the "bells and whistles" area. Never the less, I truly wish the 
> people behind Diptrace all the sucess they can get cause I really think 
> that CadSoft entered a state where aparently bigger parts of that 
> company seem to be in a long lasting nice cosy winter sleep. They truly 
> need a harsh wake up call!
>
> Markus
>   

Markus,
  I guess I will have to see if I run into the same troubles as I learn 
but it seems that with a feedback to the parent company they would 
likely fix it in an update if they thought it would generate sales. I 
hate to be the "beta tester" as I have done enough of that over the 
years and in most cases its a thankless job. I like the user friendly 
feel I got from DipTrace as I made progress in 10 minutes and hadn't 
even looked at the help file. With Eagle I felt confused  a lot and that 
was even *with* using the help file.
Regards,
Dave