On Dec 6, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Chen Xiao Fan wrote:

> What are the commonly used layout tools for the
> medium end (no high-speed / high density requirement)
> for business use?

There are enough professional class ("medium end") users of
CADSoft Eagle represented on (for example) their support forums
that I think Eagle is still in the running, in it's more expensive
versions, but Eagle is all I've used, so I can't really compare.


> For personal/SOHO use, Eagle seems to
> be the choice of many PIClist members.
>
That's because Cadsoft has an especially "enlightened" view of
hobbyists and students...  One of the reasons that it is such
a success is that it is NOT simple design tool someone wrote and
made available cheap to hobbyists.  It's a professional mid-range
PCB/CAD package that the vendor has chosen to make available cheap
(in limited versions) to hobbyists...

BillW
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