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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Which PCB CAD for someone entering the job market?

2009-02-13 by Steve Wiseman

2009/2/6 boons007 <boons007@...>:

> I in the past when it was a good buisness had a PCB design service ,
> used, Zuken, Mentor, Cadence, PCAD, ORCAD, PADS, Protel...
> I liked protel the best... of the middle end but they are basicaly
> history... Many are now dust or combined..

Huh? If you're saying Protel is history, that's far from the case.
They've renamed to Altium (for some reason, when they added a bunch of
FPGA and software tools, they changed the name).
Their Schematic and PCB tools are really rather good.
www.altium.com/products/altiumdesigner/

(No connection, just a user)

Steve

Steve

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