Tuesday, November 17, 2009

PCB design tools

I need 2 kind of software when designing and making PCB
- Schematic sketching
- PCB layout designing

 

ExpressPCB
Until this month, I have used MsPaint to sketch schema and ExpressPCB for making PCB artwork. Although ExpressPCB include schema sketching software - ExpressSCH, but the output look awful, I can draw a better looking schema just using MsPaint!

expresspcb-inaction.png

ExpressPCB homepage
 

sPlan 6.0
From a tip of my friend, I do some search with the keyword “Sprint Layout 5.0” and “sPlan 6.0”. I like them just from the first look. If you want some screenshots, information… about sPlan, Sprint Layout you can ask Mr. Google.

splan60.gif

[attach=download/splan60-iso.rar]sPlan 6.0 iso[/attach]
Note: You have to install this software from a Virtual CDROM. Otherwise, it won’t work even installing successfully (how odd, huh?)
 

Sprint Layout 5.0

sprintlayout-inaction.png
sprintlayout-photoview.png

[attach=download/Sprint-Layout50.rar] Sprint Layout 5.0[/attach]
[attach=download/Sprint-Layout50-lib.rar] Component Libs[/attach]

New - [attach=download/Sprint%20Layout%206.0.rar] Sprint Layout 6.0[/attach]
[tag]PCB[/tag]