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Express is quite easy to grow out of. Well, the old one, I think the new one is based on something they bought. The old one made it quite difficult to use anyo
by SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
Express is quite easy to grow out of. Well, the old one, I think the new one is based on something they bought.
The old one made it quite difficult to use anyone but their mfg service (obviously their business model).
- analog31 5y agoThe new one (ExpressPCB Plus) is much nicer. At my workplace, being tied to their service is not a problem for me. I'm doing R&D, and need to spin up simple boards quickly, sometimes for no reason other than wanting to "break out" an IC with good enough layout so I can test its performance in a tame environment. Anything I make that threatens to go into a product gets handed over to the real engineers, who have full blown commercial tools. And it's like the difference between programming and software development -- the latter involves a lot more moving parts and needs more sophisticated tools to manage all of them. At home, I like to order simple boards from lower cost suppliers, so I've been using FreePCB, and that's what I'm mainly interested in upgrading.