


I used Eagle many years ago, before they were acquired by Autodesk, and it was an OK product but I personally never took to it. I couldn't key my PayPal details in fast enough.Ĭouple of things worth mentioning about DipTrace. and they came back with a very reasonable upgrade price. So I sent them a grovelling email, included a link to this website, to the project I'm working on and asked them to show pity on a poor, and basically broke hobbyist.

Anyway, if you check out the DipTrace website they do offer special pricing discounts for non-profit users. Yesterday however, whilst working on my new tic-tac-toe project, I blew the 1000 pin limit, and not by a small amount either I'm going to need around 1500 pins (I'm soooo pleased I don't make and drill my own boards any more). Fortunately in this instance I could opt for 5 slot boards instead and just connect them together. Over the years this has only once been a bit of a limitation when I designed a large backplane with 10, 96 way connectors plus other components. I've been using DipTrace for years and after outgrowing the basic free version, upgraded to a non-profit version that allows my creations up to 1000 pins per design. I would just like to thank the people at DipTrace for allowing me to update to a version of their PCB / Schematic software that supports creations with more pins.
