Sure does Andy!
That can be as bad as discussing religion or politics...
Personally I find ease of use very important. I don't want to be pushing along a CAD tool when I want to be designing boards.
Customer service with respect to bug fixes and updates and listening to feedback from designers.
Good, user defined, DFM checking tools are important.
I find the ability to export and import 3D models very useful, allowing me to interact with the mechanical CAD guys.
Library parts should be easily created 'on-the-fly' from within the same user interface.
Ease of visualisation and 'cross-probing' between the pcb and schematics is important.
You should be able to use it in a simple manner to do the quick and simple jobs as well as be able to expand on it's capabilities for those that are more complex if needed.
Flexibility is therefore important.
Forget autorouters except for array breakouts. I've never seen them work nicely since everything was in through-hole DIP packages. Interactive manual routing with some automation with respect to differential pairs and buss routing is much more useful.
(btw.. I really like Altium...)
regards,
Phil.
Phil Dutton C.I.D.+
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From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andy Kowalewski
Sent: Friday, 18 May 2012 9:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [DC] CAD tool Benchmarks?
Bill, you sure can stir up a hornet's nest!
Cheers.........
Andy Kowalewski
+61 424 432 235
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Subject: Re: [DC] CAD tool Benchmarks?
It would be interesting to see a survey of the features that designers and engineers find useful in the CAD tools and 'Features' that they would rather not have to deal with in the CAD tools.
Maybe rate them on their customer service, ease of use verses power to do tough design tasks... level of technology, ease of design visualization, support of DFM, DFT, DFA... integration with EDA tools, importing and exporting, library creation...
What criteria do you find important in a PCB Design tool?
How would you judge a benchmark test of the CAD tools that are out there now?
Opinions?
:)
Bill Brooks | Datron World Communications, Inc.
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What sort of data is available to benchmark the top 4 CAD tools out there?
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