one professional package i have been very impressed with is www.protel.com
it has both schema and pcb with rats nesting, net lists, checks trace
tolerances, and tons more. i haven't looked at the pricing in about a year,
but it was $1500 for schema and $1500 for pcb. if you poke around i think
there is even a shareware (100 pins or less) version.

michael

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Drzyzgula <bob@drzyzgula.org>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Saturday, November 28, 1998 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Professional PCB Schematics NOT shareware


>On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, you wrote:
>>If money is no object, Autocad has some 3rd-party add-ons that are reputed
>>to work really well.
>
>Any specific recommendations along these lines? I have a copy of Autocad
R14 at
>work and would be very interested in something that worked as a plug-in.
>Looking through Autodesk's site, the main thing I came up with was the
>Electronic Packaging Designer suite from CAD Design Software. It appears
that
>these add-ons may cost more than the R14 cost in the first place,
however...
>into several thousand dollars for the base product, Gerber output and
Schematic
>Capture. Does anyone have a sense of how this would compare, both in
>functionality and price, to something like Protel?
>
>On the low end of all this, does anyone have experience with Electronics
>Workbench Layout?
>
>Thanks,
>--Bob
>
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