At both my current and former jobs, I use the latest version of PADS Power. It is fairly nice, and I feel comfortable with it. Hasn't crashed yet on Win95. I have also heard good things about Accel/Tango, and Orcad. If you are filthy rich and have a unix workstation, get Allegro. > I want to know what the list thinks the best, professional PCB and > schematics layout program is? I want to learn a program that will > provide me the most options long-term. I want to find a program > that is widely accepted in the industry, high user satisfaction, > been around for a while and likely to be so. I am at the point where > I am willing to pay for quality (sometime that takes a while).