Re: Eagle vs Protel

As everyone else has pointed out, autoplacement blows. I've never seen
a situation where it produces useful results. That said, the feature is
there for a reason and I suppose someone out there has a use for it.

Protel is a very good package and is no more or less clunky than any
other PCB layout software. The UI is a bit more modern than its
competitors and I found the learning curve to be a bit easier than
Orcad and other packages.

However, Eagle is cheap. A license of Protel is something like an order
of magnitude more than Eagle.

Something else to consider is that Protel and Orcad are pretty much the
industry standard tools, depending on which part of the world you do
business in. Unless you design motherboards or complex microwave stuff,
one of those two packages is likely to be your tool of choice.

Chris

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