I second the nomination, I ues Eagle on Linux too, but they that a Win
version as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Francisco Ares [mailto:francisco_ares@EMAIL.COM]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:01 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [EE]: Inexpensive schematic/PCB CAD


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 =
this
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 =
with
> >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
namne.  It can also to component placemet automatically.  As usual
autorouters is pretty crappy, but helps a lot in investigating the
routability, then you plkace all important/sensitive connections =
yourself,
and let the autorouter try to finish.  There is also a third , simple,
autorouter built 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 =
designer
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 =
that
away, although i have paid more... grumble...)
>
> Maybe I will switch to Eagle, but fear i will miss some things, but i =
have
not studioed eagle close yet.  ...and i hate to redo the component libs
again
>
> What I like about ultiboard is that is is powerful, and I find it =
pretty
easy and fast to use.
>
> /Morgan
>
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