<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">FYI,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ORCAD 16.6 Is free on the limited version. I Use the Paid version anyway but I started with the free version and I also use Altium tools. I just pay the maintenance. fees every year.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have Capilano-Douglas on my Mac works for most 2 or 4 layer designs but not for BGA.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As I build board with BGA’s, Free tools limit me on number of layers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The older Protel 99SE was acquired by Altium and worked quite well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Soory, Eagle became a non starter when I needed more capability.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Controlled impudence on memory design and BGA’s sort of make it mandatory for me to move up the food chain a bit.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">just my 2 1/2 cents.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Terry<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 20, 2017, at 9:38 PM, matt holland <<a href="mailto:matt@mattholland.org" class="">matt@mattholland.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">At least in the past free Eagle had a two page limitation which encouraged designers to cram things into less space than they should otherwise take for readability. </p><p dir="ltr" class="">I also really dislike it's system of storing power pins in separate symbols and the weird generic net and pin names with $ signs everywhere. Horrible default colors as well.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">mh</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 20, 2017 11:27 AM, "Ingo Debus" <<a href="mailto:igg.debus@gmail.com" class="">igg.debus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
> Am 20.05.2017 um 03:01 schrieb David G Dixon <<a href="mailto:dixon@mail.ubc.ca" class="">dixon@mail.ubc.ca</a>>:<br class="">
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> They beat the hell out of Eagle<br class="">
> schematics, though (which I used to get from Dan at Intellijel, who did all<br class="">
> the layouts of my designs, and I found them very difficult to read).<br class="">
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Is there something inherent to Eagle that leads to difficult to read schematics? I mean, you can always draw non-legible schematics, no matter which tool you use, but that’s not the point here.<br class="">
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Unlike now, in earlier versions AFAIR it was not possible to move parts of a schematic from one page to another. If you didn’t plan carefully, this could lead to pretty crammed sheets. But this problem is gone now.<br class="">
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Ingo<br class="">
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