<div dir="ltr"><div>Awesome. Investing in library metadata sounds totally worthwhile — eliminating a major source of human errors?</div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 July 2018 at 08:07, Sarah Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plodger@gmail.com" target="_blank">plodger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>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.<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 12:43 PM Ingo Debus <<a href="mailto:igg.debus@gmail.com" target="_blank">igg.debus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> Am 02.07.2018 um 04:12 schrieb charlie wallace <<a href="mailto:charlie@finitemonkeys.com" target="_blank">charlie@finitemonkeys.com</a>>:<br>
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> eagle has an ipc footprint wizard since 8.7 it also generates the 3d models<br>
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Ah, thanks for the heads-up!<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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Ingo<br>
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