[sdiy] Switch from Eagle to Altium Circuit Studio

john slee indigoid at oldcorollas.org
Tue Apr 25 09:36:49 CEST 2017


After a good while using hobbyist Eagle, I had another look at the (IMO)
brain-damaged dumpster fire that is the Kicad user interface... and then
plonked for a low-end Eagle 8 subscription. In v8 they've addressed a few
things that were annoying with hobbyist Eagle v7, (the schematic page limit
being the most annoying for me) and also it finally has the ability to
reuse bits of schematic+layout combo. Pretty happy so far. The improvements
for me greatly outweigh and outnumber the new annoyances.

I'm not bothered by the cloudy aspect at all, but I can understand why
other folks might be concerned.

John

On 19 April 2017 at 21:16, Tristan <tu at alphalink.com.au> wrote:

> I recall Protel being somewhat easier to work with than Eagle but have not
> tried Altium yet so the verdict is still out for me.
>
> /Tristan
>
>
> Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 1:24:23 AM, you wrote:
>
>
> I switched from Eagle 6 (pro license for schematic & board) to Altium
> (full) last year due to being moved from a software team to hardware (I was
> using Eagle at home, but work uses Altium).
> Fairly different in their methodologies, and it took me a month or so to
> stop swearing at Altium's "stupidity", but when I got used to it, I now
> prefer it. I now get a bit lost using Eagle if I have to refer to one of my
> earlier projects.
> There are still some things that I think Eagle is better (net labels,
> mainly).
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 09:10 Gordonjcp, <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 02:55:05PM +1000, Tristan wrote:
> > Has anyone made the switch from Eagle to Altium CircuitStudio?
>
> Why not give Kicad a go?
>
> --
> Gordonjcp MM0YEQ
>
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