Russell,

1. Actually I don't have QP enabled however the problem is solved=
 if
I enable the > things for my replies so tit would appear.

2. The Autotrax EDA www.autotraxeda.com  U$495 , your right I=
 took
the A$8000 and forgot the other was in US still less than=
 Protel.

3. It has potential - looks good, the Autorouter and Autoplacer=
 work
quite well.

4. Has Spice and 3D simulator - can be embedded into Excel.

4.Drawbacks - the main one is that the libraries are very small -=

almost non existent at this moment apart from standard parts-=
 that is
supposed to be addressed shortly.

5. The download is free and is the full version - if you pay you=
 get
support and (at a date to be announced I assume) upgrades.

6. I recommend a look at it - but don't expect it to be totally=
 upto
Protel at this minute, but as I said it looks as though it could=
 be a
reasonable alternative eventually.

colin

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cdb, bodgy1@optusnet.com.au on 24/10/2002

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