Just a suggestion.Īs far as price, yes the full version is much cheaper than any comparable professional level product, to the tune of several thousand cheaper for some products so it definitely has a place in the market. That might make a good place to start for people and then when their designs grow beyond 2 layers they might move up. You can get hobby level 4 layer boards made (extremely short run of 1 and 2 units), but they are far from hobby price. Maybe you could make the free version allow more pins and only 2 layers which would cover 90% of the hobby market. DipTrace compared to other software is very intuitive to use, in particular enables a printed circuit develop a faster and simpler way, the only downside is the indexing component which is not very handy, in addition to not having all you can find in bookstores Cadsoft Eagle or Protel, but when it comes to rest is a very powerful. The ability to import Eagle designs might win you a few customers that need to move into something more feature rich from the free Eagle version. Good application, very intuitive and easy to use. The canned 0805 pads for resistors and caps seem to be about 100% too large for any components that I've purchased.

Honestly I've just decided that I'll keep banging away with FreePCB, the autorouter is a bit clunky but good enough for now (considering the price).Īs far as included symbols, the searching I did for symbols a couple weeks ago suggested that most professionals prefer to generate their own for the specific parts they are going to use, which is the position I've also adopted.

Diptrace free version 300