Osmond PCB 1.0.2 review

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Osmond PCB is a flexible tool for designing printed circuit boards.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 2602K
Developer: J C Chavez
Price: $0.00
Updated: 15 Jul 2005
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Osmond PCB is a flexible tool for designing printed circuit boards.

Here are some key features of "Osmond PCB":
Virtually unlimited board sizes
Virtually unlimited number of board layers
Virtually unlimited number of parts
Spatial resolution down to 10 nanometer
Concurrent support for both Imperial and Metric units
All angle routing
Rubber-band traces
Rats Nest Layer
Variable size grid
Support for both through-hole and surface mount parts
Circular, rectangular, and oval pads
Easy part editing
Variable trace widths
Variable trace spacing
Curved traces
Silkscreen, solder-mask, and auxiliary layers
Signal and ground planes
Copper fill areas
Automatic clearance checks
Easy manual and semi-automatic routing
Built-in script language
Gerber (RS-274X) and drill file (Excellon) output
DXF file output
DXF file input
Encapsulated PostScript file output
Net check output (IPC-356).

Osmond PCB is substantially complete and is currently available for public beta testing. A growing number of printed circuit boards have already been successfully built. Versions are available for 68K, PPC, and X environments. Based on user reports, Osmond will not work with MacOS versions prior to 8.1.

Limitations:
This version of the application is being offered on a free trial basis. You may use it for your printed circuit board projects without restrictions. However, this beta version is not to be redistributed. It is available solely from my web site. Later versions may be offered as shareware.

What's New:
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when building new parts.
Fixed a bug that will cause a crash when a selected freehand path is deleted.
When using the Select tool, holding down the Command and Option keys simultaneously enables the manual scroll feature. Holding down the Control key enables selection over all layers.
The Delete key no longer copies the deleted objects to the clipboard.
Imported PDF files are now released cleanly when no longer needed.
After using the Move Selected dialog, the rusults were not immediately displayed. This has been corrected.
Fixed a bug that could allow a clearance violation if the width of a trace is larger than the width of a pad to which it connects.

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