From: "Don Walker" <donw AT austin DOT rr DOT com>
To: <hobbyplat AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: new eda tools
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:02:19 -0500
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Cool, it's been a while since I looked at it and for some reason I was
thinking it only did two layers.

DonW...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DJ Delorie [mailto:dj AT delorie DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 12:52 PM
> To: hobbyplat AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: new eda tools
>
>
>
> > To achieve the form factor we were talking about we were estimating
> > a 6 to 8 layer board.
>
> PCB supports 8 layer boards.  If you need more, edit globalconst.h and
> #define it to a higher value.  MUCS defaults to allowing up to 16
> layers.  If you have a specific concern, I'll look at the sources and
> see what's up and if it can be fixed.  And yes, I *know* the libraries
> all stink, but building new ones from scratch for the specific
> components we use won't be difficult.
>
> I looked at Eagle but I didn't feel like spending $3000 to get all the
> features you'd need to do "everything" (complex boards with
> autorouting).  And I wasn't impressed when I found that their RS232
> footprints were on 100 mil centers instead of 108 like they're
> supposed to be.