[sdiy] Goodbye Eagle...

[charlie]

they did openly announce it was going to be killed off as a standalone
product in 2023 when they planned to merge it into fusion. unfortunately
the fusion integration is just bad, it looses the speed of working in
standalone, but they don't want to hear about it.

pre 8 still works.

On Tue, 26 May 2026 at 06:20, Brother Theo via Synth-diy <
synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:

> I got the notification by answering an email about a forum post I made. If
> it wasn't for that I'd be caught out in June.
>
> So I migrated to KiCad. Turns out it's not as bad as I remember. I
> implemented a library and it looks like it will handle BOM creation better
> than Eagle did.
>
> --timmers
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 8:18 AM Sean Ellis via Synth-diy <
> synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
>
>> I guess it's not such a bad thing we're being flooded with vibe-coded
>> tools, ain't no-one paying a subscription for those....
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> on behalf of
>> H.Sergio Alves via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 26 May 2026 2:05 PM
>> *To:* Richie Burnett <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk>
>> *Cc:* SDIY List <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [sdiy] Goodbye Eagle...
>>
>> It’s kinda taking the piss now… most companies doing this… why not
>> disable the authentication on the server and shut it down? Make so people
>> can still use what they pay for! I truly hate subscriptions…
>>
>> On Tue, 26 May 2026 at 13:02, Richie Burnett <
>> rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> 4 months isn't much notice period to get things migrated to another
>> platform!
>>
>> Also I don't see why it would just stop running after June 2026 because it
>> runs offline.  I can understand that you might not be able to activate a
>> new
>> installation though.
>>
>> -Richie,
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Neil Johnson via Synth-diy
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2026 11:46 AM
>> To: SDIY List
>> Subject: [sdiy] Goodbye Eagle...
>>
>>
>> Looks like Eagle is toast...
>>
>>
>> https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Eagle-can-be-used-after-the-end-of-life.html?msockid=3dcaf17f85a6605b343be4b0840e61be
>>
>> Such a shame, it got a lot of folks into DIY board making.
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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