OUCH! Of all the things to cripple in a piece of EDA software this should not be one of them. First off there's no back or forward annotation between schematic and layout. It seems to be crippled in some very nasty ways that make this a deal breaker. I had it on my system for less than a day before I deleted it.

I'm not sure whether to allow a one year time limit. When I made those rules, I was thinking of 30 and 90 day time limits. As for my review on PCBShopper: my criteria for my list of CAD programs there has been that the software be free (zero cost) and not time limited. I was looking forward to using a professionally maintained, uncrippled PCB CAD package. On the other hand, it's not The CAD Program For The Rest Of Your Life. On the one hand, this is a lot better than a 30 day evaluation period. Undoubtedly, NI has imposed these terms and perhaps, if Mouser makes enough money from people ordering parts through MultiSIM BLUE, those license terms will be extended. So PCB layout will stop working a year after you start using MultiSIM BLUE and the rest of the package will stop working in 2017. THE SOFTWARE MAY CONTAIN CODE THAT WILL, AFTER JULY 1, 2017, DEACTIVATE THE SOFTWARE AND RENDER THE SOFTWARE UNUSABLE.

THE LICENSE EXPIRATION DATE REFERRED TO IN SECTION 3 BELOW IS JULY 1, 2017.

YOUR LICENSE TO NI MULTISIM - MOUSER ELECTRONICS EDITION SOFTWARE ENTITLES YOU TO A 12-MONTH EVALUATION LICENSE TO ULTIBOARD.

I was all set to write a review of MultiSIM BLUE for my website, /cad, but as I was installing, I actually read the license agreement (!!) and:

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