I would design ie an Arduino shield in it, to go to Kickstarter.Last December I downloaded a trial of the Altium CircuitStudio circuit board CAD (computer-aided design) program. Fine for small boards, few dozen components, few boards per year. I can probably design a PCB faster in MS Paint, than in Eagle. As I said, you can go with unicycle somewhere, but it will be slower than walking. Overall, I dont think, that CS is wort it for electronics designers (with salary), even if they give it away for free. It needs some setup, and knowledge how to use it, but it saves time so money. You loose time, only a few seconds, but it all adds up. Instead of hotkeys (burned into the brain) you need to fiddle with ribbon menu. Imagine that all these basic tasks are slowed down. In Altium, I have an excel sheet with the standard series resistors, I have one footprint, it is liked together in Altium, so I can place one just by typing the resistance value into the search field. I need it to exist in their database, and know the part number, before I can place it. For example: In CS, I need to do an online search and select, just to be able to place a resistor. If your job is primarily electronics, and you spend some time on PCB design (say, at least 20% of your time) get Altium, because the productivity is soo much higher. It is deliberately stripped down, as said, and it will make your work slower.
The question is: Do we actually need the additional features that Altium Designer has? Is it worth throwing 10 grand at? Why? Why not? It's also worth mentioning that we might need a license for two users. It much cheaper (almost an order of magnitude), but is a stripped down version of Altium Designer IIRC. It's expensive, but we _can_ afford it if we have to. We've been looking at buying Altium Designer, but the price here is allmost 10000$ plus a yearly update of ~1500$. The company agrees that they want to replace CadInt. This company have been using CadInt, but I want to use a modern and efficient CAD software when I'm going design these 4 and 6 layer PCBs.
I've used Eagle a lot, and know it very well. The biggest boards we're goint to design MAY be as large as 4 rack units, but mostly never more than 15x20 cm. Hi! I just started working at a small company that designs DSP audio gear and HDMI splitters/repeaters for professional installation.
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