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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: April 13, 2009
- Total Downloads: 18,846
- Downloads last week: 73
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 10 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Why design circuit boards on paper when you have great software to help? DipTrace is a robust, powerful program that helps you easily design even the most complicated printed circuit boards. Create single- or multi-sheet circuit boards, create schematics, or export net lists to PCB. We especially liked the program's clean and intuitive interface.
All important features for designing and editing are conveniently located as one-touch buttons around the main editing screen. During testing, all program functions ran smoothly and error-free. For professionals who want a reliable PCB-design tool to small-business owners who don't want to spend a lot of cash on software to hobbyists who just want to play around with hardware design, this is a great application.
Publisher's description
From Novarm :DipTrace is an advanced PCB design software application that consists of 4 modules: PCB Layout with efficient auto-router and auto-placer, Schematic Capture, Component and Pattern Editors that allow you to design your own component libraries. DipTrace has a powerful automatic router, superior to many routers included in other PCB layout packages. It can route a single layer and multilayer circuit boards, and there is an option to autoroute a single layer board with jumper wires, if required. DipTrace also provides you with external autorouter support. Smart manual routing tools allow users to finalize the design and to get the results they want in a blink of an eye. There are number of verification features, that allows you to control accuracy of your project. DipTrace modules allow you to exchange schematics, layouts and libraries with other EDA and CAD packages. Output formats are DXF, Gerber, Drill and G-code. Standard libraries contain 70,000+ components. Version 2.0 enhanced design manager, adds hierarchical schematic, features Arc traces.
What's new in this version:
- Design manager - Hierarchical schematic - Fanout - Manual routing improved - Arc traces - many other new features - 8000+ new components
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Version: DipTrace 2.0
"EZ & Fast - Can't beat the price"
Pros: - Intuitive:just start designing -Fast:Schematic layouts, custom components and complete PCBs in minutes.
Cons: There are minor annoyances, at times it's difficult to select traces if they are completely under components.
Summary: This software is unbelievable for free. I downloaded it to make a quick and simple PCB. Then I made a slightly more complicated PCB. Now I'm using all aspects of it, the schematic editor, component editor and of course the PCB editor.
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