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 ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC web site (http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################ ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC web site (http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################