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4/21/2019

A comprehensive and versatile PCB design application that provides you with a wide range of components and intuitive tools to aid you in your work

What's new in DipTrace Free 3.3 Beta:

  • Configurable precision for all values by units, configurable grid precision.
  • Improved manual routing:
  • 'follow design rules' option (doesn't allow violations)
  • redesigned routing modes
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DipTrace Free is a powerful application that you can use to design Printed circuit boards (PCB). The application is composed out of four modules that offer you schematic capture, PCB layout, component and pattern editors. With these you can design complex, detailed schematics and even render an explorable 3D model of the board or a component.

As a CAD application, DipTrace Freedisplays a technical interface that best suites engineers but it’s built in a way that allows even novice users to fully understand how it functions. Creating a schematic is an easy task as you only need to select the components from its vast library and drag them in the workspace. The ‘Schematic’ module enables you to create a visual and logical structure with all the components connected using wires, busses, ports or by name.

With the PCB Layout module you are able to design entire boards. It provides you with drawing, route, element and placement toolbars, as well as pattern lists, hints and a layers dock. The application also offers you the use of real-time DRC, which ensures you correct mistakes before you actually make them. One of the most important features of DipTrace Free is the fact that it can quickly and easily render a 3D model of the board and have it ready for mechanical CAD modeling.

Since designing a circuit board requires a large and well organized database, the application not only provides you with thousands of components and patterns, it also grants you the possibility to design your own components.

The versatility of the application extends beyond it’s large database and intuitive tools as the tool supports Accel, P-CAD, Mentor, Allegro, PADS, Protel and Tango netlist formats.

With the above to consider and much more to discover, DipTrace Free is truly a full featured PCB design application.

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DipTrace Free was reviewed by Alexandru Chirila
4.5/5

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DipTrace Free 3.2.0.1 / 3.3 Beta

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file size:
137 MB
filename:
dipfree_en.exe
runs on:
Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows 8 32/64 bit
Windows 7 32/64 bit
Windows Vista 32/64 bit
Windows XP 32/64 bit
main category:
Multimedia
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Why design circuit boards on paper when you have great software to help? DipTrace is a robust, powerful program that helps you easily design even the most complicated printed circuit boards. Create single- or multi-sheet circuit boards, create schematics, or export net lists to PCB. We especially liked the program's clean and intuitive interface.

All important features for designing and editing are conveniently located as one-touch buttons around the main editing screen. During testing, all program functions ran smoothly and error-free. For professionals who want a reliable PCB-design tool to small-business owners who don't want to spend a lot of cash on software to hobbyists who just want to play around with hardware design, this is a great application.

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