There is always a compromise in choosing the right CAD. If you need less work in updating libraries (meaning the library is free or comes with the CAD pack) and don't have money, then choose Eagle.
If you have some money to spent then choose Orcad, Altium Designer, Protel or Target3001. If your design is a proffesional multilayer one, then choose a serious CAD as Pads or newer integrated Mentor solutions. Designing PCB does not means manual drawing (aka Eagle) or silly autorouters (aka Eagle too) but assisted routing and powerfull autorouters. However for less than 100-200 components design and max 4 layers Eagle is Ok only because it's free and has a lot of libraries (some of them wrong). Vasile On 9/21/09, mattschinkel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am drawing up schematics for my sd card lib and hard disk lib. > > I was thinking it may be a good idea for us to all use the same > scematic software, and possibly include scematics with the jalilb > pack. Of course PDF versions are also a good idea. > > It would be nice if we could have 1 schematic for each sample, this > would be very great for users. > > > What program do you use for drawing schematics? > > I have been trying out TinyCad from http://tinycad.sourceforge.net/ > It is open source. With this software, there is ability to output a > Net List for your pcb layouts. > > It currently contains about 100 parts. With this software, we can make > a jallib parts list to contain all microcontrollers and other parts > such as sd card, hard disk, etc. This jallib parts list can go on SVN > for updating. > > What do you think? > > Matt. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
