> Still, the question arises: are there any affordable alternatives? kikad http://kicad-pcb.org/ I haven't done any serious work with it. When I looked 5 or 10 years ago, it was good enough to make some very nice big, complicated boards. (I don't know how much effort went into them.) It had a steep enough learning curve that I didn't get very far off the ground but so does everything else in this area. I didn't see any show stoppers. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.