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Designing A PCB (Printed Circuit Board) - Software Review

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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