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- From: squish@endor.uucp (Shishin Yamada)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Looking for PCB layout program
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.065951.26614@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 06:59:51 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1993Jan24.065951.26614
- References: <1993Jan20.150529.19555@iex.uucp> <C19Dtn.1v6@wang.com>
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- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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- In article <C19Dtn.1v6@wang.com> pvr@wang.com writes:
- >mikek@neptune.iex.com (Mike Keilhofer) writes:
- >
- >>Can anyone recomend a PCB layout program for the IBM PC? I'm
- >>only looking for manual layout capabilities and the ability
- >>to print the design.
- >
- > Try PADS-PCB. It is available as a fully working demo. It
- >is only limited in the size of the design that it will handle.
- >No not than two board layers and about 20 IC's. It has a
- >schematic capture editor, a board layout editor, an auto-router,
- >and a large parts library. You can get it from Simtel20.
-
- Hiho, I was wondering if anyone knew of any good PCB
- autorouting packages for the Mac. I have seen the C source code for an
- autorouter (from someone at Microsoft), but it was a port from the
- IBM, and as such lacks many of the Mac ammenities. Also, it had poor
- printer support (only for HP laserjets). Are their any others? Also, I
- have seen QuikCircuit (by Douglas Electronics), and was not impressed
- by this buggy product (1985 version in the robotics lab).
-
- I was looking for just standard apple laserprinter output, so
- we could fab small boards in house (we also luckily have access to
- full NC CAM machines, including a NC-PCB machine, which takes NC
- codes, but has no software... There is a gerber hack running it right now).
-
- I've tried running PADS and think it's great. Do they supply a
- Mac version? Thanks in advance for all replies.
-
- -Shishin "Squish" Yamada
- squish@endor.harvard.edu
-
- Division of Applied Sciences
- Electrical Engineering
- Harvard University
- Cambridge, MA 02138
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