where can I find....

[Paul Rhodes]

Dear All,
I hope that someone will be able to advise me where I can find some software
that will turn my circuit diagram into a fully fledged board ready to got to
the manufacturers with. I am just starting out in business for myself and do
not want to spend any money on this if that's at all possible.
Many Thanks

 

Yahoo has a group called FreePCB where you can get good help and a pretty
fair PCB layout package for no charge.

Tinycad at sourceforge.net has a schematic capture program to go along
with FreePCB.

Eagle PCB has products that are free with a limited number of pins and
nets.

www.cadsoft.de

You can use one of several dedicated packages whereing the vendor gives
you the sch and pcb software which outputs files that are non-standard
that you send to them and they return you 3 or 4 PCBs, limits on the size,
and stuff like that.

www.exprespcb.com and even PCBexpress.com/nv are two companies who provide
this.

Good luck,

JB

 

In <1113344551.462380.231580@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, on 04/12/05
at 03:22 PM, "JeffM" <jeffm_@email.com> said:

FreePCB / Tinycad
JB (learning @ learning.com)

OK. Apt for his use.

Eagle PCB has products that are free
with a limited number of pins and nets.

Wrong on both counts.
The Cadsoft freeware licence does not cover commercial use.

I guess I missed the part where the request was for commercial use. Where
did that happen?

The free version is limited, but not by the parameters you noted.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.engineering.electrical/browse_frm/thread/cc1ba6a49e79a2b1/01ddbd021683a11e?q=hobbyist-demoware+free-version

Call a cop....