Hi Charles,
  If you can swing it you should go to the PCB Design Conference in Santa
Clara, vendors are going to have different software packages to try out. Just
a thought.
  Ted Nathan
  PCB Designer
  3-5 Systems Inc.
  Phx,Az

>>> Charles Barker <[log in to unmask]> 03/05 10:28 am >>>
Charles Barker@I-O INC
03/05/98 11:28 AM

If you were going to set up a new PCB Design Service from scratch, what
system would you buy and why?

The system must have schematic capture, auto-route, auto-place with manual
override.
DRC at all stages of the physical process.
SMT, Top & Bottom, output usable for Pick and Place programming, Solder
stencil, glue stencil.
Data extract, back annotation, BOM generation to feed into master database
system.
Ability to panelize arrays.
On-grid, off-grid abilities.
Good archiving and retrieval capabilities.
Create assembly drawings......................

In other words, a full blown system

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