What type of designs are you planning?
It will make a huge difference!
Tell us more and the feedback will be better.
I choose PADS due to the interactive and dynamic routing capabilities.
We can talk more off-line if you would like
Best Regards
FNK

Frank N Kimmey
EM Designer
C&K Systems, Inc
916-353-5366
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> Dear designers,
> My company is establishing a new devision for PCB design, so we are
> goining to buy cad software,but we are confused with all the cad
> software on the market. I have to choose from these 4 alternatives:
> 1. Mentor graphics Board station on windows NT
> 2. ACCEL EDA
> 3. PADS
> 4. Ultimate
>
> So please help me with my decision.
>
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> Khaled H. Fouad
> PCB Design Engineer, R&D Department
> PCB Egypt , Member of BAHGAT Group Foundation
> http://www.bahgat.com
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