On 2/1/08, Martin Klingensmith <martin@nnytech.net> wrote:
> I had my place of employment get a license for our use. There was
> nothing else in the price range that compares with it, IMO.

There is a free one, with equal (poor) features as Eagle, on the yahoo
forums, made by a french, I don't remember now the name, do a search.

The
> open-source solutions are interesting, but not there yet. Maybe in a few
> years. Once you spend a few days with it you learn the obscurities.
> There aren't many gripes that I can think of at the moment. The labeling
> of nets to connect across sheets is a bit of a kludge, and I wish the
> net (wire) drawing tool was smarter, but neither of those are things to
> make me dislike the program in general.
> We didn't buy the autorouter, and I don't miss it. Half of what I do is
> analog anyway. I'd say for relatively small boards, Eagle is a good buy.
> If you're making an 8 layer motherboard, something else is definitely
> better.
> Martin
>
> Bob Blick wrote:
> > I'm glad they continue to improve it. I imagine it'll be pretty nice
> > right about the time the value of the dollar makes it unaffordable :)
> >
> > Cheerful regards,
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
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