[sdiy] Buying the full version of Eagle

[ryan williams]

I don't think this is ever a problem. I have not yet found a PCB 
manufacturer that can't handle gerber files, nor have I found a PCB 
program that can't generate gerber files.

I have tried eagle, orcad, protel dxp, and kicad. From those, I liked 
protel the best, followed by eagle. I think one could become very 
efficient with eagle with some practice, but I only did one PCB with it. 
If I were to buy one, I'd go with eagle. Since I'm poor, I use Kicad 
which is open source, but currently has no where near the capabilities 
of eagle.

that 4pcb.com deal is good. The PCBs look very nice. I just had a school 
project built on one of them. There are cheaper options though.

-ryan

Jeff Farr wrote:
> I've been planning on using the www.4pcb.com 3 board for 100$ service.
>  It's my understanding that eagle can create the neccessary files for
> them..  I havn't gotten so far as to look into this yet tho.