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Article #23Re: what is best & simple PCB maker?
From: budgie
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 05:02
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 05:02
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On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 01:22:02 GMT, nico@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel) wrote: >"Michael Culley" <mculley@NOSPAMoptushome.com.au> wrote: > >>Are you talking about Easytrax from protel? Have you got it to work above >>640x480? > >Autotrax from Protel always ran at 800x600 on my PC's. Some hacking of >a driver file was necessary, but I always managed to get it working... >Same goes for good old Orcad 3.x. > >It doesn't run on Windows 2000 though. >I've been using Autotrax for years with good results. Even the >autorouter is usefull for boards with loads of through-mount LS logic >chips. As long as your idea of good autorouting is "topside east-west, bottomside north-south and use a zillion vias to dodge anything at all" then you might be happy with the AutoTrax autorouter. I'm not.
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