I've used a Linux program called Eagle, and it's very good for a freeware=
!  I know that there are some PCB manufacturers that accept files from th=
is program.

Francisco


Morgan Olsson wrote:

> Jim Kane wrote 2001-07-26:
> >Hello, List;
> >I've been following this line and I wonder if anyone has experience wi=
th
> >Ultiboard from Electronics Workbench.
>
> I am using Ultiboard and it=B4s schematic capture ulticap.
> I bougt it with also specctra autorouter and their own, I forgot the na=
mne.  It can also to component placemet automatically.  As usual autorout=
ers is pretty crappy, but helps a lot in investigating the routability, t=
hen you plkace all important/sensitive connections yourself, and let the =
autorouter try to finish.  There is also a third , simple, autorouter bui=
lt into ultiboard.
>
> I started usin git while it was dos verison, and it worked very nice in=
 full screen also under win 3.11 and win95.
>
> Pretty expensive, though, and i=B4ve stopped paying the annual upgrade =
fee of approx 700US.  My main complaint is that they are only developing =
the for me pretty useless autorouters, autoplacement etc, but still last =
time i talked to them they had no solution for the broken backannotation =
(have never worked in the windows version)  Also, the schematic symbol de=
signer often crasches.  (maybe not in later versions)
>
> I will talk to them again to se if anything happened (I did pay for the=
 old dos version where backannotation worked, and now they have stolen th=
at away, although i have paid more... grumble...)
>
> Maybe I will switch to Eagle, but fear i will miss some things, but i h=
ave not studioed eagle close yet.  ...and i hate to redo the component li=
bs again
>
> What I like about ultiboard is that is is powerful, and I find it prett=
y easy and fast to use.
>
> /Morgan
>
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