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On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 14:15 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:

> To be honest, they were actually really amazed by the 3D rotation
> feature of PCB (Peter C's pcb+gl_experimental branch) and its
> capabilities.  I could probably convince them to use gEDA if it was
> fully functional on Windows. 

Yes, the fine 3D pictures from Peter C.'s Blog 
http://pcjc2.blogspot.de/2011/02/pcbgl-repository-instructions.html
and Anthonys Toporouter pictures (now removed from the Web) are strong
attractors for Windows users.

But I wonder why your colleagues do not use a multiboot maschine.
Installing an Ubuntu on a free partition is easy, many Windows people do
it now. When you do EDA work, you do not really need Windows programs at
the same time...