Hi all,
Just purchased CS. I come from Eagle and even worse, ExpressPCB. I have long wanted an Altium level tool and when the Eagle transition was offered I jumped.
Now I'm wading my way through trying to learn what I need to, to make the tool useful. I'm visiting all the web pages and videos.
I have a few questions:
1) I know from prior experience that design rules are key. The question is what to set them to. I have yet to select a PCB vendor for use and some offered design rules files for Eagle. Are there any that are offering design rules files or imports for CS? I typically do very small 4-8 board runs so I need a place that is reasonable for that price. That's another question next.
2) I've seen threads on US PCB houses. I'm looking for a recommendation for up to 4 layer boards in small runs of 4-8 boards. For comparison, ExpressPCB can do most of the boards I would want for like $450. Willing to pay more but not orders of magnitude. For that price I can get a board in about a week from them. Their software sucks but sometimes when you need something fast it works. I'd like to get away from using them and use a better tool hence the CS purchase.
3) Libraries. While the vault was a good selling point I'm not finding the stuff I want and perhaps it is just being a newbie. I wanted 1206 size caps for a hand built board but searching the libs and vault I could not find any. So where are good places to get libs if any? I do know I can create my own but hoping to find some already built stuff I can use. Am I just not searching hard enough?
Anyway, happy to be here and hoping to get better with this thing. Thanks in advance for your time in answering.
