I'll have to agree with Ron, these 4 seem to be the most practical and most used by designers. I would also like to see with Routing--Placement strategies, and choosing alternate parts. Also, I would like to see someone talk about scripts and shortcuts used to aid in the tools out there. Routing---I would like to see broken into both autorouting strategies as well and manual routing strategies. 1) Routing 2) Library Development 3) Documentation 4) Design Capture Thanks, Charlene Dwyer Lee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DesignerCouncil Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil. To set a vacation stop for delivery of DesignerCouncil send: SET DesignerCouncil NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------