[sdiy] Re: Swapping copper layers in Eagle

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Matthew Smith wrote:

> Eagle's other 'pro' point for me is the fact that there is a Linux  
> version so I don't have to face the tiresome issue of having to fire  
> up a Windoze XP session under VMWare, slowing down everything else I  
> am doing on the machine.
>
> If I were to change, I'd be moving to a free/libre OSS solution  
> which would have to be as well or better featured as Eagle.  There  
> would also need to be a user-contributed devices repository  
> available as I have neither the time nor the inclination to create  
> all the devices/packages that I use from scratch.

In my case, one plus for Eagle was that it has a Mac OS native version.

> If anyone can point me at such a wonder, I am certainly willing to  
> be persuaded.

You might go for the geda tools, which I have heard good things about.  
For reasons I don't remember now, had trouble getting them to run on  
my Mac, which is why I didn't pursue them and went for Eagle, but a  
few more days effort into it probably would have gotten them going.

- Aaron