Re: Low cost PCB layout software

From: Terry (tjporter_at_gronk.porter.net)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:13:42 +1100

Ralph Malph threw some tea leaves on the floor
 and this is what they wrote:

> I am looking for low cost PCB layout software. My designs are not
> overly complex, and are on small boards, but I will be using very small
> parts and features ~0.4mm/0.016" pitch, .006"/.006" trace/space. I have
> looked at a couple of web sites that list free software and have found
> two types of packages; the no strings attached open source packages that
> are not very mature or run on xNIX (and not windows) or the PCB fab
> house supplied packages that tie you to getting your boards from them.
>
> Clearly I need something that actually works, so most of the truely free
> packages are not viable. The PCB package from
> http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/ seems to work,

It definitely does work, I've been using it for at least 5 years.

> but is not
> supported under windows.

That's because it was developed on GNU/Linux.

> It is not clear if it will run under Cygwin.
> I guess I could dedicate a machine to PCB design and run Linix, but I am
> pretty sure I would end up creating problems from my lack of experience
> with *NIX.

I think if you can lay out pcbs, you can handle simple file operations
with GNU/Linux, it really isn't hard.

PCB is "click and grunt" just like any other GUI cad app.

I have some pics of PCB at work on my site:-
http://milkstone.d2.net.au/software/pcb.html 

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