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People pay £40 per hour for a PCB guy because it is a skilled task they are doing, PCB layout is not just a case of slapping the components on the board and joining them together.
..well, I do agree with you here, at least in part, because , at first, I used to read the manuals of the more complex pcb layout packages, but stopped as I was getting nowhere..i found it more productive to use eagle and hunt for help on the general internet....of course, the major pcb layout packages don't have general help available from the internet...at least not from "external" sources.TBH no-one actually reads the manuals, the support guys become glorified help readers/explainers sometimes.
This statement does not stand.Eagle of course, is different, but as you know, very very few companies (outside of China) actually use eagle, even if they only do simple PCBs.
...lots of PCBs are not complex.the complexity of todays PCBs
the guy who used it was a local guy who used to operate the companies pick and place solder machine.....they liked him cuzz he was local , and they assumed he would be at the company for years and years, unlike an electronic engineer, who may nip off and work somewhere else.The fact that engineers were "unable" to use the company's existing software is hard to believe. Who WAS able to use it?
..I tend to disagree, its better if the hardware designer does the pcb layout aswell, especially the first prototype, when multiple changes are needed...in my last job, I whizzed a pcb off with eagle and every time I needed to change something (due to spec change etc), I was quickly able to do so...I didn't have to keep going up and hassling a pcb layout guy....because I was that guy.I work for numerous companies and Engineers, quite a few who insist that I do there layouts for them, and an engineer is better employed doing a job he is capable of, designing the circuit.
...if "dummys guides" were allowed to flourish on the web, then engineers would be able to use the pcb package for simple pcbs.And electronics engineers (whatever they may think) often make the worse PCB designers....As proven by their inability to get to grips with the software, never mind lay the boards out.
The increase in productivity for electronics co's will mean PCB apps engineers, pcb cad vendors, contract pcb designers....all will gain.
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