[sdiy] Goodbye Eagle...

[Spiros Makris]

I jumped ship a few years ago when usage of Eagle became part of the fusion
subscription (is it still like that? I wonder).
I think KiCad is better than eagle in most aspects. The autorouter and bus
routing tools were nice, but I guess I'm not in a domain that *needs* them;
I'm pretty sure they will eventually be added as native features.

On Thu, 28 May 2026 at 00:24, Ben Stuyts via Synth-diy <
synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:

> Oh tease!
>
> On 27 May 2026, at 14:40, Sarah Thompson via Synth-diy <
> synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
>
> Kicad is *much* better than it used to be. I'm sorry to see EAGLE go. I've
> built things with that that have been around the far side of the moon. :-)
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM charlie <charlie at finitemonkeys.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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