For most of you who are starting to build electronic
projects the first step as I think is to designing a Printed Circuit Board
(PCB) at the comfort of your home. The first PCB that you design may not be at
the industrial level. But as time pass by you will get the hang of it.
There
are many commercially available PCB designing software where as I have posted
here are some of the most common PCB designing software that I have used.
Many of them have free trial
versions but I recommend to purchase an appropriate version for your
purpose.(Software piracy is illegal and a crime punishable).
I prefer Or-CAD which has
many tools to carry out the PCB designing and printing process. However Eagle
and Proteus are very useful as well. They all provide free demo versions. These
software can be used when the printing process is done at your home with your
own printer. But for carrying out your design somewhere else means you have to
carry the software with you. For that matter there is PCB Wizard which can be
carried out in a flash drive and do the printing outside of your workshop or
home.
Later I will be discussing how you can use
Or-CAD to design and print your own PCB.
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