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One of the first PCB designs I did was with some proprietary software like this that was tied to a fabrication company. It was the easiest route at the time to
by hettygreen 6y ago
One of the first PCB designs I did was with some proprietary software like this that was tied to a fabrication company. It was the easiest route at the time to getting something "done", since all the proper PCB design packages required a lot more work.
Yes it worked, but for the second project I wanted to do some things outside of their capabilities and other PCB fab houses were fractions of the price. So I had to basically start from scratch again and learn KiCad, wishing I had just gone that route from the start and not wasted time and money.
Now I'm pretty "OK" with KiCad and just finished a large board with about 1000 components that I sent to a fab house for pick-and-place assembly. I was able to shop the design around and pick the fab house I wanted to work with after talking with them directly and sending them industry-standard GERBER files generated directly from KiCad. Excellent.
So I guess my long-winded advice is to bite the bullet and learn a real PCB design program.