If you want to produce professional boards, there are many PCB-manufacturers, which accept Sprint-Layout files. For manufacturing your PCBs by hand, there is an excellent printout-procedure with many options available. I already have my next board design in mind. Sprint Layout 7 Software Is Much Sprint-Layout offers all needed functions to design your own layouts. My first board design was completed with Sprint, sent to the board shop, and I should receive my boards tomorrow (Yeah!), so I'll know more about the full process then by validating the measurements and quality. After doing some part lookups, I did find the need to refresh the screen (F5) to return the screen to full view, but this is the worse "problem" I've found so far. Some of the finer details took a few help references to master and there was the natural need to learn new/different ways of doing a few things like copper pour, that I was used to with ExpressPCB, but it took minutes instead of hours (or days with Eagle - so I've heard). A fully functional PCB CAD software that is reasonably easy to learn and use all while being stable is a bargain at ~$55 USD (40 Euros).Īfter buying it with PayPal, downloading, and installing it, I had a board designed and about 80% done within an hour. I found Abacom's Sprint-Layout very easy, intuitive, their help files actually return usable information, and it is very easy to create/modify device footprints. I have not used Eagle, so I can't truly A-B them, but I have used ExpressPCB software (which I loved, just not their PCB prices). I just recently asked the same thing you're asking and did lots of searches and comparisons.
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