Homebrew PCBs

Hi Steve,

I've ended up going with AutoTrax myself.
It is low cost and after trying it for a while, found that it 
actually works.
There are some surprises with it, such as not a lot of packages in 
the library, and some heavy duty reading needed to understand it - 
but once you see what it does it is actuallay very good for the price.

I'm an registered electrician / electronics technician / designer / 
inventor / and  heavy drinker, and I get really pissed of with 
software (and other things) that don't fit the bill.
AutoTrax has work for me and doesn't cost the huge price of things 
like Easy-PC.

It easily suits multi-monitor computers (would advise something beter 
than an Atari though) and is flexible in what it can do from package 
design, footprint design, 3D, spice, schematic and pcb - although I 
have not been using it for long and have not mastered complex PCBs, 
it is doing what I want for now.

Good luck with your endevours.

Daryl Mills
LogicResearch.


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Steve Greenfield 
<alienrelics@...> wrote:
>
> Sigh... well, I knew I'd never get a consensus when I asked about 
this a year ago.
> 
> So I'm going with Eagle for now because 1. I found a book about 
using it in the Half Price Bookstore, 2. Someone made a library for 
the PIC32MXxxxx series for which I'm doing a few projects, and 3. It 
is free or cheap.
> 
> I graduate at the end of this year. If I put Eagle on my resume, do 
you think it will hurt or help? 
> 
> In my classes, AutoCAD is the official CAD, my instructor told me 
to choose which Schem. Capture/ PCB Router I would learn. There is a 
classroom budget for software, so I could pick something not free, 
but something that costs $2,000 to $15,000 isn't going to happen. I 
don't want something so limited that I can only put a few generic ICs 
on a board.
> 
> I'm attending Bates Technical College, Electronic Engineering 
Technician course. While I'm here, I'm getting the CET I should have 
gotten long ago and going for the FCC commercial license.
> 
> Steve Greenfield
>