I use PCB by Omation. Old program that uses the PADS engine.  I used to
burn up the dongle every few months. They told me the last time that I
would have to shell out about $4500 if it burned up again. They later
changed to another cad engine for their software and did away with the
dongle.  However, I digress, we had some boards that were done off site
and all we had were the schematics, check plot, and the boards. I
managed to get a copy of the gerber files from the board house and found
a program called EASYPC. It was from a company across the big lake over
in th UK.  Only a couple hundred for schematic and pcb programs.  Good
feature is that it would allow you to take the gerber file in and
re-create your board so that it could be edited and updated as needed.
Don't know if they are still in business but you might look.

SkinTech wrote:
ing a Boardmaker dongle
> around, or is it possible to work without the dongle? What other options do
> I have?
>
> Thanks, Jan Didden

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