PCB Artist
Summary from Publisher
PCB Artist is a user friendly, fully integrated schematic capture & Free PCB Layout Software that you will find easy to use. You can download PCB Artist and install the product at no charge and start designing you PCB design almost immediately
Operating Systems
* Windows
Schematic Design
- + Very intuitive
- + Easy to set net's
- + Easy to add components
- + Easy to move components around
- + Highlight Nets easily
- Unknown what netlist format (Easy-PC ?)
Library
- Fairly extensive library
- - No native import from Eagle
Component Editor
- + Links to part creation tutorial within the program
- + Easy to use existing components as base
- + VERY nice wizard!
PCB Layout
- + Intuitive
- + Easy to highlight net's
- Fairly easy to layout a stripboard
- Autosave (Had a crash, and was able to recover the file)
- - Seems to be a bug with colors
- - I have a problem with the Design Rule Check
Nice things
- Intuitive operation
- Seems stable
- Simple yet powerful
Bad things
- Wont produce Gerber files for self creation of PCB unless you order at least one copy of the pcb
- Can't change colors on the layers. (This is most likely a bug)
