Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

I've been watching this thread with somewhat bitten tongue. heh heh.

I use eagle for a number of reasons but primarily, you get a very
full featured product in the demo version (limited to size of
board). I tried a number of other packages but the demo versions had
confusing restrictions and the price for the paid version was pretty
steep (for an amateur). They have a very active and helpful (with
attitude, though) user group and there are tons of libraries
available.

I have to say that eagle is not with out its problems, especially the
user interface which has it moments of user hostility. (clipboard
interface is just plain a PITA) and the library editor could be
better. So I have a love-hate relationship but I'm not moving to
some other package.

A big factor for me was that I could get a "non-comercial" license
for the full product for 150. Now that's a bargain. And should I
need to design commercial products, the full license is less than a
grand.