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No, not by design, you get what you pay for I guess If I'm buying a 5x5cm 4-layer board with ENIG finishing, it comes-out to $6.5 per PCB. But it's been a joy to use so far! The different ground plane options are also nice, I typically use a crosshatch pattern for my home-etched PCBs (although my Samsung printer could probably handle a solid ground plane with its heavy-toner setting anyhow).Īlso agree with the DRC, it has never let me down with homebrew or commercial PCB making. This makes sense, since the guys who made DipTrace have roots in CNC and machining.Īgreed, and I didn't know the guys who wrote it came from CNC backgrounds Come to think of it I also haven't really checked what else their website & forums have to offer in terms of footprints/libraries et al. I've done 5/5 bug-free boards with DipTrace, and the boards I do are reasonably dense - great DRC.

It has some quirks, but for manually routing tight spaces and pours on multilayer boards, it is the way to go unless you want to pay for Altium. I find that the signal routing is a lot nicer in DipTrace than it is in Eagle: easier, faster, better coloration and graphic display.

Diptrace order pcb only green solder mask