Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:30:52 -0700 (PDT)
owens@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello Larry,

Am 2008-06-18 11:35:04, schrieb owens@xxxxxxxx:
Michelle
My (no defunct) company went through a similar search as you.
What we found was some very good and very expensive software,
primarily ported to
Suns, and some reasonably good and reasonably inexpensive software,
unfortunately ported to XP. Perhaps others can suggest something
that combines the XP-like cost with (some of the) UNIX-like
features. Due to cost reasons we ended up with the XP stuff.
Hope you find something that
matches your needs.
Larry

My VariCAD is runnin on Debian and there is nothing which beat it.
Handling, Usability, Performance and Price <SIGH> 20.000 Euro.

Do you mean a Layout-Software for PCBs?
What "expensive" and "less expensive" was it?

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

Michelle
The software I used included a schematic capture package, and a PCB
layout package. As do most layout packages this one required some
human input for the layout rules (line widths, hole sizes, etc.) and
for routing in case the built-in algorithm got "stumped". The output
of the PCB layout package was a file in standard (e.g. Gerber) format
that one could send to someone to make the boards themselves. The
schematic package was called Circuit Maker and the companion PCB
board layout package was called TraxMaker. The packages at that time
were relatively inexpensive (e.g. several hundred US dollars) and
only ran on XP.

I am using the freely downloadable student edition of Circuit Maker, and
it works well enough for university tasks. And it runs nicely in wine,
so I assume the full version runs also. I know, I know: this is not
professional. :))
The other one I like is eagle. It is distributed with Debian, in the
non-free section.

I believe both packages and the (Austrailian)
company that developed them were bought by someone else but some
Googling will tell you the new names if you are interested. Again
these were more for boards that had perhaps up to a few hundred
components and for relatively small boards--"perfect" for a small
company doing in-house layout but out-house board manufacture. Larry
P.S. The Sun packages were Mentor Graphics' and VERY complex and VERY
expensive (several tens of thousand US dollars as I recall). These
are used, for example, by the PC motherboard companies (multilayer
boards, plated-through holes, vias, etc.)


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