Mark . . . .
there's a handy tool called * viewmate * ( www.lavenir.com)  that allows you to
import Gerber , HPGL , Drill and Apertures into their application and do some
non-destructive viewing.  The download was 4-meg and it was a free operational
version ( shareware I think ? )

Regards . . . .
                            Steve Kelley

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Skeels <meskeels@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] PCB design software


>> How about ACCEL EDA? Anyone uses that?
>>
>> Marcelo
>
>
>I have initial experience with ACCEL; i have entered a schematic and layed
>out one smallish SMT/through hole design. We have the version with the
>included "low-end" router.
>
>It works well enough, I suppose, but I find it's library editor awkward to
>use, and it's user interface is a little clunky.
>
>We use it though, and it does produce useful output.
>
>One problem I had is that I tried to view the gerbers it generated byreading
>them into my artwork on their own layers. After loading them in, it is next
>to impossible to delete them!
>
>Mark
>