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Electronic CAD - Which is the best value?

dougw

To get an idea of best value, you need to convert your CAD time to money and add the cost of the product to get total cost. Then divide your output by the total cost.

Altium Circuit Studio $688
Cadence OrCad $530
Autodesk Eagle $645
Siemens Mentor PADS $499
Easy-PC $360
KiCad $0

Other - there are lots of others to consider.

It would seem that CAD is not in the Technologies list on this forum.

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  • Incidentally, that's the price for a year : ) Unless one freezes their PC from updates (not practical), at some point the chances are high an upgrade would be needed. Maybe not an upgrade every year, but perhaps every two years might need to be budgeted.

    For hobbyists the answer is clear (I think you knew the answer when you wrote the question : )

    For businesses, the better options from all of these manufacturers are a different price, there are more enterprise-focussed products they offer. 

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    shabaz said:
    For businesses, the better options from all of these manufacturers are a different price, there are more enterprise-focussed products they offer. 

    Yes. Once your job is to design PCBs efficiently and maintain their product lifecycle, the Altiums of this world win. They also integrate into a versioning, archiving and document management solution that's enterprise scaled.

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  • in reply to shabaz
    shabaz said:
    For businesses, the better options from all of these manufacturers are a different price, there are more enterprise-focussed products they offer. 

    Yes. Once your job is to design PCBs efficiently and maintain their product lifecycle, the Altiums of this world win. They also integrate into a versioning, archiving and document management solution that's enterprise scaled.

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