[sdiy] What's your fav PCB package?

[Rainer Buchty]

> I'm aware that Eagle has a pretty long history and started as a DOS 
> program. Perhaps that's why it's a bit unconventional by today's 
> standards.

Reminds me of the ongoing discussion on de.sci.electronics ... Nobody 
knows what "today's standards" of EDA software are when it comes to UI 
:)

>> but agreed, overloading the Ratsnest function is a bit 
>> counterintuitive... Even worse, I haven't found a way to get it of 
>> the flood fill other than either load/close/save it or move the 
>> flood-area boundaries and resize.
>
> I don't understand... "get it of the flood fill", what do you mean?

Must have been really tired when typing that ... It should read "get 
*rid* of the flood fill". Once you fill an area it stays filled -- and I 
found no other methods to get back to the unfilled version apart from 
the mentioned methods.

> By the way, when you use flood fill for ground planes on double-sided 
> boards, do you route ground traces first, or do you rely on on the 
> flood fill that it will "somehow" connect all the ground pins?

Personally, I do the latter. If I pre-route GND/VCC then only locally 
where I expect to run into trouble later.

Rainer