Is there an inexpensive circuit board design program?

[Steve Richfie1d]

This may be an oxymoron, but is there an inexpensive circuit board
design program out there, one that I wouldn't have to mortgage my home
to purchase? All I need to do is to design some 2-layer circuit boards.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Steve Richfield, N7VCG

 

[John McGaw]

"Steve Richfie1d" <Steve@NOSPAM.smart-life.net> wrote in message
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This may be an oxymoron, but is there an inexpensive circuit board
design program out there, one that I wouldn't have to mortgage my home
to purchase? All I need to do is to design some 2-layer circuit boards.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Steve Richfield, N7VCG

Is free cheap enough? Go to Google and type "printed circuit design
software" (less the quotes of course), click the button, and you should have
quite a few to consider.
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

 

[Bob Parker]

Protel Autotrax is free now. That's all I ever use.

Bob


"John McGaw" <nowhere@at.all> wrote:

"Steve Richfie1d" <Steve@NOSPAM.smart-life.net> wrote in message
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This may be an oxymoron, but is there an inexpensive circuit board
design program out there, one that I wouldn't have to mortgage my home
to purchase? All I need to do is to design some 2-layer circuit boards.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Steve Richfield, N7VCG

Is free cheap enough? Go to Google and type "printed circuit design
software" (less the quotes of course), click the button, and you should have
quite a few to consider.

 

[Fabian Amann]

Hi Steve!
I have used Eagle. It's free for up to an half Euro-PCB (100 mm x 80 mm; 4 "
x 3.2 "). As far as I know, there are no other restrictions.
You can download it from
http://www.cadsoft.de/cgi-bin/download.pl?page=/home/cadsoft/html_public/dow
nload.htm.de&dir=pub/program/4.1. I
It's a german site, but there are also English versions available for
Windows and Linux.

Fabian


"Bob Parker" <bobp@bluebottle.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Protel Autotrax is free now. That's all I ever use.

Bob


"John McGaw" <nowhere@at.all> wrote:

"Steve Richfie1d" <Steve@NOSPAM.smart-life.net> wrote in message
news:09e91644c390adb466805e9e3cceb7a6@news.teranews.com...
This may be an oxymoron, but is there an inexpensive circuit board
design program out there, one that I wouldn't have to mortgage my home
to purchase? All I need to do is to design some 2-layer circuit boards.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Steve Richfield, N7VCG

Is free cheap enough? Go to Google and type "printed circuit design
software" (less the quotes of course), click the button, and you should
have
quite a few to consider.

 

[David Gersic]

On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:40:27 GMT, Steve Richfie1d <Steve@NOSPAM.smart-life.net> wrote:

This may be an oxymoron, but is there an inexpensive circuit board
design program out there

Several, actually.

If you don't mind the interface, this one is supposed to be good:
http://www.lupinesystems.com/easytrax

Personally, I'm using this one:
http://www.expresspcb.com

Both are free. The ExpressPCB one is geared toward having them run the
boards for you, but there's nothing stopping you from printing out the
artwork layers and using them to etch your own boards. Works fine.


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