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 [log in to unmask] > ---------- > From: Khaled Hassan Fouad[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum.;Khaled Hassan Fouad > Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 3:14 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [DC] what cad software is better. > > 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. > > -- > Khaled H. Fouad > PCB Design Engineer, R&D Department > PCB Egypt , Member of BAHGAT Group Foundation > http://www.bahgat.com > Email : [log in to unmask] > > ################################################################ > 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 ################################################################