Sorry about this, I replied to this note and it didn't get sent to the list.
Sorry for yet another review of cheap Schematic Capture/Board Layout Tools.

myke

<my rant deleted>

>OK, so what do *you* use?

For the most part, I have been using Easytrax (ie the raw card designs in my
book were done with Easytrax).  There's a bit of a learning curve and for
anything other than a single PIC design I wouldn't recommend it.

I have a license for Ulti-board, it was "okay" for DOS Command Line
Execution, but I have recently gotten the Windows version (came available in
August) and I haven't used it yet.  The DOS Command Line Version could not
print on my HP-600 DeskJet, so I didn't really use a lot other than playing
around with it.  I haven't seen any problems with it as yet.

I have also tried another cheap ($100) layout tool called "QCAD" from a
company here in Toronto and I ended up deleting it because it did not do
what the company said it could do and I ended up having to create a number
of libraries and there was an awful lot of playing around with it to get the
autorouter to work properly.  They were also *really* not interested in
supporting it.

myke

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