Just one point, it has to have follow me routing, push and shove would be an extra. For these prices (3000 USD tops) with no pcb limitations, what would you recommend? If you have any other opinion feel free to tell me. Holophase is not giving the support I need. I cannot find any pcb program that handles pictures, gerbers and dxf files like Circad, but I need to advance. So now I come to the price part (I want all without pcb limitations): Diptrace USD895, eagle USD1495, proteus USD2322, cadint USD2900, easypc USD1114(no extra libs, advanced gerber import included). Libraries in a package should be free, unless you ask for a specific part.

EasyPC is good also, but what you pay for extras is not that good. Cadint can be a bit daunting at first, but after you get along with it, it's very fluid and fast it has everything that I want, the follow me routing and push&shove features are amazing, backannotation is good, loads images, dxf and gerbers quite well. Proteus is very good, for me, the follow me routing is very nice, already has a good library and has one of the best simulation engines that I will not use that much, no back annotation, but it has some nice import features on pcb side, although not enough for me. Eagle is nice, lots of libs, good worldwide support, but rude interface, no back annotation, cannot load images, gerbers or dxf directly. Diptrace looks and feels nice but lacks some features I need like back annotation. I tested diptrace, eagle, proteus, cadint and easypc. Since this is a one man job and I apreciate a lot technical support, I want to know wich software, non free(nice support) and not too expensive, that you can recommend me. But routing on it comparing with other software is kinda rude and for more complex designs it can be a bit of a nightmare. I bought Circad, from wich was cheap, simple and good for what I wanted. But now some people are asking me to do so on more complex designs, with qfp, bga ,smd and stuff like that. Hi! This is my first post and already asking for something But since most of you are professionals this would be simple to know! My work consists in reversing from pcb to sch some simple old boards like audio equipment etc.

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