> On 2017-11-09, at 21:56, Jim Brain <brain@jbrain.com> wrote: > >> I just found out that Eagle is a part of AutoDesk (remember >> AutoCAD?) now. Shouldn't be a problem but I often have the feeling >> when taken over by a big company, the product becomes worse. >> Conformation: it is only available in 64 bits. > The main problem at present is that they have went to a "subscription" model, so you can't buy a perpetual license anymore. I suspect that those who own v6-v7 of EAGLE will just keep their copies for quite a while, as those use the new XML format. The v5 users (yourself) are more challenged, as you can't read the XML format and I am not sure you can buy v7.X from anywhere (maybe someone looking to sell their old copy?) > > I know the FLOSS folks have all embraced KiCAD, and kudos to Steve for moving to it. I have grown so accustomed to EAGLE over the last 14 years, and with the lack of auto back-annotation in KiCAD, I found no value in moving. Yeah, we discussed this not so long ago here. I would be willing to sacrifice the automatic back-annotation though. My last problem was different. I forced myself to do a relatively simple layout. I hated the fact that I was not able to put all the supplies and bypasses in a dedicated schematics area but had to clutter the main schematic instead. But OK, I did it. Everything looked OK. I got no ERC errors, nothing, and the board would be unusable anyway because two chips were not connected to power/GND plane. Luckily I am used to eyeball the gerbers for possible last minute corrections. -- SD! - http://e4aws.silverdr.com/ Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-11-10 11:00:02
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