Making PCB, best software

[dhouston]

Multisim/Ultiboard 11 ...

For the price ($3600+ Utiboard) it should do 3D manufacturing - not just simulation.

• http://www.3dsystems.com/

[dhouston]

I was wrong - you could do 3-D manufacturing and have money left over.

• http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/ar...ref=technology
• http://www.makerbot.com/

[tiger_bel]

using ultiboard for 20 years , still today. (european favorite) looking for another program.
yearly update and maintenance fee is very high, and no support from NI.
changing to another system is a pain, i must redraw all the designs, (more than 500.)

and what abt altium ???

rgds
tb

[mister_e]

Whatever you choose, keep previous software you have, just to maintain ol design in snap.

Been a long time P-CAD user, always been pleased with, the few time I asked for support they were pretty fast, so Altium should be the same.

For me, after over 15 years with the same software "thinking"/"minding"/"Workflow", moving to another software (Eagle) have been a huge pain in the a$$. Not to mention all the time lost to re-create custom parts in the library.

I'll probably go back to Altium one day.