DipTrace

Multimedia, CAD

DipTrace is a complete PCB Design system. It includes four programs:

1. DipTrace – PCB design with easy to use manual route and autorouter.
2. Schematic – creates schematic and exports netlist to PCB.
3. ComEdit – pattern editor.
4. SchemEdit – component editor. Draw Schematic symbols and attach patterns to them.

DipTrace provides the following features:

Easy to learn and easy to use user interface – To design a schematic, simply select and place components onto your document and connect them together using the wire and bus tools. Multisheet design is supported. Then select the menu option `Switch to Board` to convert the schematic to PCB. When you create or edit design objects they are highlighted to improve your work.

Easy to use manual and powerful automatic routing – DipTrace includes an advanced automatic router that is able to route single-layer and multi-layer boards. Available with a `rip-up and retry` algorithm. Autorouter achieves extremely high completion rates by going back and re-routing nets to make space for connections that could not be routed on a previous pass. Use the intelligent manual routing tools to finish the design and to get the best results you want.

Shape-based copper pour – powerful copper pour system can help to reduce your manufacturing costs by minimizing the amount of etching solution required. To use it, all you have to do is insert a copper area on your board and any pad or track inside the selected area will be automatically surrounded with a gap of the desired size.

Manufacturing output formats – DipTrace provides support for a number of different manufacturing output formats. You can produce N/C Drill files for numerically controlled (N.C.) drilling machines and RS-274X Gerber files for sending to board manufacturers. Vectorizing function allows to export true-type fonts and raster images.

...and much more!