[sdiy] Free CAD (was: Proteus software)

[David]

I love Eagle. I tried at least a half dozen different layout/schematic
applications, free and commercial, and Eagle really clicked for me. I found
the interface to be intuitive and easy. I found it simple to use for
building the dozens of custom components I needed for my Synthasystem
resurrection. It has a robust ERC and DRC which found any problem I created.
I personally find the schematics easy to read and it was very straight
forward as I was re-capturing the Synthasystem schematics. You can easily
move labels around and it's trivial to extend a schematic over multiple
pages. The auto-router gave me a good starting point for the routing and
often, I had to do very little to clean it up. 

The one I was using before I switched to Eagle was Target. Very powerful,
but I found the interface to be very counter intuitive and cumbersome.

To each his/her own I guess.

David

-- -----Original Message-----
-- From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-
-- bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Tom Wiltshire
-- Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:10 PM
-- To: David G. Dixon
-- Cc: 'Synth-DIY DIY'
-- Subject: Re: [sdiy] Free CAD (was: Proteus software)
-- 
-- Sorry to harp on the same theme, but this is another reason not to use
awful software, not a
-- reason to continue drawing PCBs in Excel!
-- 
-- I agree completely about Eagle. I found use of Eagle is painful in the
extreme and no-one
-- should ever be made to use if for anything, least of all drawing
circuits.
-- 
-- T.
-- 
-- On 21 Feb 2011, at 19:50, David G. Dixon wrote:
-- 
-- > I'll second that opinion.  I don't use any of these myself, but I work
with
-- > someone who converts my designs to Eagle.  That program makes THE most
-- > illegible schematics I've ever seen, and zooming in and out is a real
pain.
-- > Plus, it is a bit glitchy, as you will think you've made a connection,
but
-- > it might not (for whatever reason) actually connect the trace on the
PCB.  I
-- > wonder how many layout errors on Eagle are user errors, and how many
are
-- > Eagle glitches?
-- 
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