Homebrew PCBs

>From: Markus Zingg <m.zingg@...>
>Reply-To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Found a great place to get boards made 
>cheap
>Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:35:12 +0200
>
>Hi Dave
>
>I'm personally using eagle, but bought a professional license. The
>free one is fairly limitted space wise. I'm fairly happy with eagle
>and also needed support from them which was free and excellent.
>However this profesional version costs some $$$ so if you are on a
>thight budget, you may consider what follows.
>
>There is a free schema capture and layoutsoftware available with a
>very impressive feature list. I haven't really worked with it, but
>maybe it's something for you. I downladed it and quickly played around
>wiht it a while ago and was quite impressed from this first look. If I
>would have to re-evaluate at this point in time I definately would
>take a closer look. The product is called Autotrax and is - what is
>hard to belive for a product as powerfulll and complete as it seems -
>completely free.
>
>http://www.autotraxeda.com/


I tried Autotrax out of curiosity and found it unusable! It was very slow 
and had lots of bugs. I think it's been improved, but now costs money. The 
developer (there's only one of him) seems to have got the users of the free 
product to do his debugging for him. Micro$oft has been doing something like 
this for years, of course.

I use Pulsonix, BTW: http:/www.pulsonix.com. It's excellent, but fairly 
expensive.

Leon
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Leon Heller, G1HSM Tel: +44 1424 423947
Email:leon_heller@...
My web page: http://www.geocities.com/leon_heller

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