[Repeater-Builder] pc-board design program wanted
can any one recommend a good pc-board design program easy to use and free or cheap to buy ? thanks Keith VA3KMC
Re: [Repeater-Builder] pc-board design program wanted
Kieht; For non production, amateur, and student use, Express PCB and PCB Express offer free cad programs to do boards they support internally. Launch ordering right inside,...simple layout tools.. Tough to beat for easy learning curve and one-off assy's.. A few days turn to get them done pretty reasonable pricing for prototypes not destined for production. If you plan on making lots of a board through conventional board houses, then more conventional cad programs would be in order but largely have longer learning curvessome of those have pin limited free versions and demos... Eagle http://www.cadsoft.de/freeware.htm is a popular one... I use Express PCB for my personal choice between the two former sources... Doug KD8B At 02:19 PM 2/19/2007, you wrote: can any one recommend a good pc-board design program easy to use and free or cheap to buy ? thanks Keith VA3KMC
Re: [Repeater-Builder] pc-board design program wanted
Thanks doug will give that a try Keith Doug Bade wrote: Kieht; For non production, amateur, and student use, Express PCB and PCB Express offer free cad programs to do boards they support internally. Launch ordering right inside,...simple layout tools.. Tough to beat for easy learning curve and one-off assy's.. A few days turn to get them done pretty reasonable pricing for prototypes not destined for production. If you plan on making lots of a board through conventional board houses, then more conventional cad programs would be in order but largely have longer learning curvessome of those have pin limited free versions and demos... Eagle http://www.cadsoft.de/freeware.htm is a popular one... I use Express PCB for my personal choice between the two former sources... Doug KD8B At 02:19 PM 2/19/2007, you wrote: can any one recommend a good pc-board design program easy to use and free or cheap to buy ? thanks Keith VA3KMC Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [Repeater-Builder] pc-board design program wanted
At 11:19 AM 2/19/2007, you wrote: can any one recommend a good pc-board design program easy to use and free or cheap to buy ? ---It depends on how complex your layout will be. We use Eagle by Cadsoft but they do have a free demo version. http://www.cadsoftusa.com Ken -- President and CTO - Arcom Communications Makers of the world famous RC210 Repeater Controller and accessories. http://www.arcomcontrollers.com/ Authorized Dealers for Kenwood and Telewave and we offer complete repeater packages! AH6LE/R - IRLP Node 3000 http://www.irlp.net
Re: [Repeater-Builder] pc-board design program wanted
Hi I use DipTrace quite a lot. It is a relatively new program, includes schematic, pcb, components libraries with custom capabilities, autorouting. It comes as a free 30 day trial, a light version and the full version is about $500 or so, 1/10th of the big guys. Free to check it out. Made many boards with complicated networks and very small footprints and am quite satisfied. Also the customer service is outstanding. The author responds within hours usually to quesitons by the user. Since is it new (1-2 years old), there are many requests for features which are responded to whether positively or negatively. I am very happy with the product. I own the full version. Russ Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can any one recommend a good pc-board design program easy to use and free or cheap to buy ? thanks Keith VA3KMC
Re: [Repeater-Builder] pc-board design program wanted
Here's one that's GNU license: http://www.freepcb.com/ Never used it, just passing it along. Scott Scott Zimmerman Amateur Radio Call N3XCC 474 Barnett Road Boswell, PA 15531 - Original Message - From: Keith To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 2:19 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] pc-board design program wanted can any one recommend a good pc-board design program easy to use and free or cheap to buy ? thanks Keith VA3KMC -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.2/692 - Release Date: 2/18/2007 4:35 PM
Re: [Repeater-Builder] pc-board design program wanted
Thanks to all that replied Keith va3kmc Russ Wilson wrote: Hi I use DipTrace quite a lot. It is a relatively new program, includes schematic, pcb, components libraries with custom capabilities, autorouting. It comes as a free 30 day trial, a light version and the full version is about $500 or so, 1/10th of the big guys. Free to check it out. Made many boards with complicated networks and very small footprints and am quite satisfied. Also the customer service is outstanding. The author responds within hours usually to quesitons by the user. Since is it new (1-2 years old), there are many requests for features which are responded to whether positively or negatively. I am very happy with the product. I own the full version. Russ Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can any one recommend a good pc-board design program easy to use and free or cheap to buy ? thanks Keith VA3KMC
