At these prices, it's really very cheap compared to Eagle prices.Įagle is a very powerful package, but it's too expensive and the GUI is really 1980 likes. The Lite version(500 pins, 2L) is free and has also no size limitation on board (and everything is included even the autorouter). For about 120$, you could get the NON PROFIT Standard edition (1000 pins, 4L) with no limitation in board size. Now need to check some details about import of Eagle libs, and if it's done ok, I'll for sure buy this one. The parts builder is really very simple to use. For the libs, it really lack a lot of libs, but I saw on the web that it's able to import Eagle libs and parts (didn't tried that yet). This product is really far better than Eagle (from the intractivity side). You mouve parts naturally, you copy/paste them, you move tracks, rework them, the contextual menus works really very well and all commands are available there. It's really extra intuitive especially when interacting with mouse. All that in less than 15 min !!!! I could even move parts from one side to the other with simple mouse clicks. Without reading ANY doc, nor checking any help file, right after having installed it, I could create a schematics (TQFP PIC chip+24LCxx + some resistors and capa), check it for EE validity, convert it to PCB, do autorouting and rework some tracks and render it in 3D. Tried DipTrace yesturday, and I was really estonished.

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