Homebrew PCBs

Well, even if you have a fully paid eagle license you'll still feel as
if you were working with a crippled free test version, so bad is the
lack of functions.
I asked the support what was the best way to add outline measurements
to your layout (you know the arrows and stuff). Guess what the reply
was, can't do that. I was however pointed to a ULP, which i installed,
and which inserted some very rudimentary lines and numbers in places i
didn't care for. Total waste of time that. If i'm paying for a
commercial software i expect it to at least perform all elementary
tasks of PCB design, _without_ external user supplied ULPs. A lot of
the stuff i draw, i have to draw by coordinates. I feel like i'm using
a 20 year old system just short of feeding it with punch cards.
After a day of working with this awful thing, i really can't fully
express my opinion about it within the constraints of polite
conversation so i won't go any further.

As a regular user (not by choice) i can only recommend to stay well
clear. There are many much better packages, even in the same price
range.

ST

On Nov 14, 2007 11:02 AM, alioth10 <dyls@...> wrote:

> I didn't even consider Eagle, because you have to pay a lot of money
> for it not to have crippling restrictions (and I've heard some not
> good things about being locked out of your own work with no appeals
> just because you downloaded a footprint for a component that was made
> by someone else with a pirate copy).
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