[ELECTRON] PCB design/Eagle

[Clive Mitchell]

EAGLE is very good, but has evolved into something that can do too
much.  If you do master it then you've mastered an industry standard
package that is popular and widely used, but I struggled with it
myself.  It's very frustrating when you're used to using a different
bit of software that ran on obsolete hardware and then find what took
you five minutes in the past is not easy at all on EAGLE.

Sprint Layout is one of the cheapest PCB design packages about, but is
also one of the most basic.  It won't autoroute your board for you or
keep tabs on the PCBs relationship to the schematic in your head, but
it will let you drop, drag and flip pads, tracks and text willy nilly
to your hearts content on 1 to 4 layers.  It also produces industry
standard Gerber and NC files that can be used by most PCB
manufacturers.


On 23 July 2010 10:51, David <crayxax at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using Eagle because it is free - is Sprint Layout worth the 39
> Euro?
>
> The designs I am using aren't that complicated at all, but Eagle seemed to
> have too many options and yeah, seemed very steep.



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Clive Mitchell.

http://www.bigclive.com