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[forgie]

I'm in the process of starting a partnership company as well as a personal consulting business - I need to choose an electronics CAD package to learn, invest in it, and stick with it. I think EasyPC looks like by far the cheapest 'Pro' package. For what I need, this would appear to be an easy choice!

[nomada]

Hello all,

At my job we have been using EasyPc from Number One Systems in the last four years. It's a quite cheap electronics cad software, it has a small learning curve, we customise all the components (libraries) for our needs (we like good looking layouts). It works pretty well even under Win98SE.

Every PCB manufacturer undertstands the EasyPC file outputs.

Of course there are "better" software but if price matters...

Bye to you all

[forgie]

Yep, well that suits my needs just fine. Standard analog and uController stuff is about as advanced as I need - I'm not designing mobile phones here! I should hopefully have a copy of EasyPC in my hands in the next few weeks....

[Madscientist]

Personally, I like Livewire by new wave concepts. It can be found at www.new-wave-concepts.com The company is in the U.K.

I recently added PCB wizard 3 from the same company. They work together. They are both fairly cheap. PCB wizard 3 automatically prints out your printed circuit board based on your schematic. I have made several projects with the two programs. Check em out. I think that company has demo versions for free.

Darren

[Luciano]

I'm in the process of starting a partnership company as well as a personal consulting business - I need to choose an electronics CAD package to learn, invest in it, and stick with it. I think EasyPC looks like by far the cheapest 'Pro' package. For what I need, this would appear to be an easy choice!

What about FPGA design?

http://www.altium.com/Products/AltiumDesigner/

Luciano

[forgie]

FPGA isn't something that I'm going to need in the next few years, anyway. Maybe a few years down the track I'll want/need those capabilities, and then I'll consider buying into the Altium empire.... until then I'll go with the more independent option thanks!