Re: New query for low cost PCB CAD that *works*

Andy Peters wrote:

> Ian Bell wrote:
>
>> OK, I checked with my old colleague. The one we chose but then went off
>> was Veribest. The one we changed to was Protel.
>
> Veribest was later renamed Mentor Expedition PCB.
>
> It's remarkably powerful, but at the cost of intensive training. It's
> probably overkill if you're not doing packed boards with 0402 passives,
> BGAs on both sides, and 24 layers of impedance-matched traces.
>
> I find Protel DXP and PCAD to both be very workable, although their
> notions of libraries and design rules and other major features are very
> different. Neither is inexpensive.

Depends on your definition of expensive, but relative to Veribest, Protel
was cheap.

Ian

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