Hi Guys !
This is my first post , I am new here.
I am an engineer and recently decide to open my own company of PCB design.
Hopefully there are quite a lot of engineers here ,what kind of software do you use to design PCB now?
I can use PCB express, DXP, EAGLE now .
Maybe I can learn from you ,get your ideas.
I used to design some simple one -layer and double-sided boards for school, And have them manufactured, They love it !
Seeing as this is the KiCad forum, the answer is obvious
Many of us are refugees from EAGLE licensing, which forbids any commercial use of the free version
Well. This is the KiCad related forum, so we all use KiCad, and naturally we are recommended KiCad EDA Suite. 
Especially that with a great help from CERN guys we have Push&Shove and DiffPair Router.
But if you want to know, in the past Iāve used Altium/Protel (DOS Traxedit and DXP). Today I think the Altium solutions are too expensive (in this EDA app level). Altium still can not understand that it would be better to offer licenses for individual modules instead of two: on the principle of āall or nothingā. So I kick his asses and switch to KiCad although my helpmate continue working with DXP.
The best advice in your situation is: Use software which you will utilize at 100%.
If āColinBentonā doesnāt turn out to be a spammer I will be surprised. Iād even hazard a guess which company he/she will be spamming for.
I think someone setting up a pcb design company should know a lot more about the tools that they will be using
Heh. I never used Eagle because I looked at the limitations of the cheaper version, the full capabilities of the most expensive version, and thought āwhy would anyone use this?ā
Well, Iām glad the forum is online again so we can have these types of discussions 
Thanks, my friendļ¼
My friend recommend me to come here and wish I can get needed !
I am not good at Kidcad,but it seems you are all talented to use Kicad, or maybe take a long time to master it.
Altium / Protel is quite useful for me ,but when I forward the .pcb , pcbdoc files to suppliers, they always ask me to generate kind of Gerber files to them.
While, everyone has its idea about usefulness of different softwares, thanks for sharing your idea:)
So you are stick to Kidcad,haha
I am going to set up a small company, but maybe only a employee of myself at present 
Kicad is quite popular and wins much attention among my friends,
Hi bobc, Thanks for pointing out, I may be a spammer when I set up my own company successfully.
Thanks for your attention ,dear
Professional PCB makers will always prefer Gerber. Even if they can accept Altium etc, are they using the same version as you? Gerber is an optical plotting standard and well documented publically
I donāt know how you can hold Altium/Protel licenses and not know that the format to interact with a pcb manufacturer is gerber for a reason.
From DesignSpark.
I like the software BUT I want to use this at work also (I use at home), BUT we have a secure location and NO Internet access ā¦ so I needed something that would work with out an Internet connection ā¦ so far this seems to work.
Oscar The Gouch !