[sdiy] Eagle for PCB Layout

[Sarah Thompson]

Yes! Enormously so. It takes longer during layout, but you get that back
immediately. If you reuse your own libraries, of course, everything speeds
up hugely. I think people forget just how painful parts ordering can be,
particularly if you make a mistake and then have a grumpy client grump at
you for costing them extra money.

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 5:14 PM john slee <indigoid at oldcorollas.org> wrote:

> Awesome. Investing in library metadata sounds totally worthwhile —
> eliminating a major source of human errors?
>
> John
>
> On 3 July 2018 at 08:07, Sarah Thompson <plodger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Long time EAGLE user here. I haven't yet gone to the Autodesk version,
>> but will do so before my next nontrivial board project. I've done
>> everything up to and including spaceflight mil spec 12 layer boards with 3
>> on 3 geometry, LVDS, impedance control, etc. with EAGLE. Altium has more
>> features, but it's too spendy to buy as an individual. I *could*, but
>> that's a hell of a lot of money that I'm not sure really pans out. If I was
>> doing contract design or layout for an Altium shop I'd possibly make the
>> leap if the numbers worked out.
>>
>> Re building your own libraries, I do tend to make my own custom EAGLE
>> libraries, importing components from standard libraries as well as defining
>> my own, and adding extra attributes so I can go directly from a board
>> design to a fully marked up BOM with part numbers and suppliers. I find
>> that capability a huge timesaver, particularly if anything ends up needing
>> revs.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 12:43 PM Ingo Debus <igg.debus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> > Am 02.07.2018 um 04:12 schrieb charlie wallace <
>>> charlie at finitemonkeys.com>:
>>> >
>>> > eagle has an ipc footprint wizard since 8.7 it also generates the 3d
>>> models
>>>
>>> Ah, thanks for the heads-up!
>>> I updated to version 8.7.1 a while ago, but I overlooked that feature
>>> bcause that version still came with the 8.6 user manual. Should have paid
>>> more attention to the update.txt file.
>>> However, i just have downloaded 9.1.0. I’ll try the „wizard" soon.
>>> Anyone who’s searching for it, it’s called package creator or package
>>> generator.
>>>
>>> Ingo
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