The WinBoard is good enough but WinDraft not. I tried it shareware and full
working version and both crashed some times without reason. In this case you
lose your work. You stil have backup copies of autosave funkcion but every
ten minutes you can do big work on shematic.In WinBoard, when you try to
select a part or silk on one side of PCB, you never know what WinBoard will
select, if there is another part (or trace, or ...) on the other side of PCB.
ex.: on the same position on the PCB are two parts, one on the TOP layer the
other on the BOTTOM layer. When clicking on top layer part you can select
meny things:(top part, bottom part, top silk, bottom silk etc) In the
"protel98" in the same situacion it will ask you what do you want to select.
This is a big advantage. For auto place and auto router in protel98 - no
coments, maybe just: EXELENT. Wd and Wb by Ivex there is no auto place and
auto route. The Ivex's library editor isn't so good as protel98's.
This is just for comparsion. I've used Ivex products for more then a year but
now i found out the protel98. It's really very good.

Valter

Mark A Moss wrote:

> Ivex's WinBoard Demo is decent for shareware.  Limitation is that designs
> are limited to 100 pins unless you want to pay for the full version.
>
> Ivex website: www.ivex.com
>
> Mark Moss
> Amateur Radio Operator, Technician, and General Tinkerer
>
> On Sat, 28 Nov 1998 07:25:02 -0500 Alan Nickerson <anick@IVERSOFT.COM>
> writes:
> >I dont really want to re-hash an old topic. But I was wondering if
> >there is
> >any really good shareware or freeware PCB Layout software.
> >
> >Alan
> >
>
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