[sdiy] Eagle for PCB Layout

[matt holland]

A lot of this comes down to what tool you've already invested your time in.
All my muscle and UI memory is now stuck in Altium land (though it took me
about 6 months to fully transition from OrCAD/Allegro) so the idea of using
any other tool sounds incredibly painful.

For price, Altium Designer is still out of hobbyist reach. Fortunately they
created CircuitStudio which is basically a stripped down Altium Designer
(unfortunately they didn't retain the keyboard shortcuts which are part of
the aforementioned muscle memory). CircuitStudio is missing some nice
things like length matching, more advanced search capabilities (the "Find
Similar Objects..." command) and some other things that seem like bugs
(layer sets don't work, polygon handling is much more clunky). I purchased
it for $500 (that may have been a special offer) which is a steal
considering Designer is ~$10k. Sometime after I received an offer for
Designer at $5k which was tempting but still more than I can justify.

Eagle is either $100 or $500 (needed if you exceed Standard's board size or
layer count limitations) per year so a $500 permanent seat license for CS
(no board size or layer count limitations) is very competitive. Also, Eagle
to me is not very easy on the eyes.











On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Chris Juried <cjuried at yahoo.com> wrote:

> How does Altium compare to Eagle?
>
> Sincerely,
>
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> On Thursday, June 28, 2018, 4:57:02 PM EDT, john slee <
> indigoid at oldcorollas.org> wrote:
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> Yeah Eagle. I’ve been using it for a few years now. The improvements since
> Autodesk took over have been interesting. Many of them were small, subtle
> things, and a huge amount of bugfixes. But it feels like a much more solid
> product now. Really happy, and happy to keep paying for it.
>
> I tried (a few times) to like Kicad, I really did. But most everything in
> it felt unnecessarily efforty, and my time is worth more than that. It
> would be cheaper to upgrade my Eagle license if necessary (eg. for more
> layers/larger boards) than waste any more time on Kicad
>
> John
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 at 04:52, Chris Juried <cjuried at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Group,
>
> Who is currently utilizing Eagle for their PCB layouts? If not, what are
> you currently using?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Juried
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