[sdiy] Buying the full version of Eagle

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On Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2005 17:45, Jeff Farr wrote:
> I'm about to take the dive and drop 399$ of the unrestricted version
> of the layout editor and before I do this I'm wondering if I should
> consider any other options..

As far as options for Eagle itself: do you know about the "noncommercial 
license" of Eagle and do you really care about the few remaining 
restrictions on that?

> From what I've found Eagle really is 
> the least expensive option and does everything I'll need, but are
> there any hidden caveats?  I assume I can still use the free
> schematic editor with the full layout editor..

If you want to be sure ask CadSoft before you buy. The license you'll 
get will definitely remove the autorouter (not that you should care), 
not sure if they'd leave in the single page schematics capture from the 
freeware version.

You can always open any Eagle projects in any license version of Eagle, 
just the editors you don't have a license for don't work. You can also 
install two different versions of Eagle or switch license files between 
invocations, but this would be really inconvenient if you do many 
iterations between schematics and board.


Achim.
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