Greetings again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Eddy" To: Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [EE]: Anyone know of a review of PCB CAD packages? > We are both standing on the same iceberg. I am concerned that eagle is > hobby too. > My super duper wish list; > > Design rule checking I use DRC on the board to check min. drill sizes, pad sizes, spacing after auto-routing and after manual rotuing. > copper fill Define, in the proper layer, a polygon of width x. The area so defined will avoid other non-associated pads, *will* properly do associated pads using a neat thermal isolation trick and will 'fill' the area 'painting' with the Gerber area defined (wire width). > advanced editting of library symbols What would 'advanced' editing be? I usually 'dump' the Eagle library being edited as a script file - then edit that since that seems to be quicker. > back/forward anotate They offer some capability here ... > very fine pitch (getting into TSSOP) I did some 15 mil pitch (.015) 100 Pin QFP layout - but haven't had that board built yet. > ease of mixing metric and imperial I usually convert the metric device to English and 'round' off the unit to +-.001 inch It *may* allow real-time selection of one or the other - can someone conform this? > multi-page project grouping Multi-page schematics same board - is this the same thing? > bill of material generation There is a ULP that does this. > > Of course, add the word 'better' in front of each item, as my current > system, ProCAD, has these but they are flawed to one degree or another. > > Chris Loiacono wrote: > > I'll be watching whatever thread may develop for this, as I have some > > sililar issues, and have decided to spend some money to resolve them > > ASAP. > > It seems that several on this list have spoken highly of the Eagle > > tool, > > likewise it has received high praise on other lists also. I am > > concerned > > that it may be a dressed-up hobby package. Hmmmm ... Eagle seems a little better than just that. It has been around for awhile now - it has what we call 'legacy' in the biz ... I began using it on a 33MHz 386 back in the mid 90's when it was still DOS based. Jim -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads