Quote Originally Posted by Heckler View Post
bottom line ... they all have a VERY STEEP learning curve.
Not all. Sprint Layout is inexpensive and has an extremely simple, intuitive interface. You can be doing complex layouts almost immediately. It's multilayer.

However, there is no integrated schematic capture and its autorouter is very rudimentary.

They have a demo version: http://www.abacom-online.de/uk/html/sprint-layout.html