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Warning about CadSoft Eagle

As most of you know, Eagle has been sold/absorbed or whatever.

I bought 3 seats about 3 years ago. Their support was second to none prior to that and had been until recently.

I have not been able to get in touch with their support for about 3 weeks now. Their Web site has changed considerably. The Eagle application pop-up tells me that a new version is available. I tried to download it using their link and after 20 minutes, nothing happened.

We bought this software and used it for business products.So this is a warning to all who are thinking to invest money in Eagle. It may be abandoned.

Beware!

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John S
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Purchased from Farnell by Autodesk in June. No indication regarding future plans and support that I could find. CEO is listed as VP Sales at Autodesk...

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mixed nuts

FWIW, Eagle files import effortlessly in Altium Designer, and probably CircuitStudio as well. (I haven't used CS, because obviously I don't need to, but from what I've seen, it has almost all the same features as AD, and it's as affordable as Eagle!)

If you need help with conversion or touch-ups, I do excellent work. :-)

Tim

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Reply to
Tim Williams

The cadsoft.io site seems to work, just downloaded 7.7

Cheers

Reply to
Martin Riddle

I was going to ask about current pricing...

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So for ~$800 I get a maximum board size of ~ 4" X 6"? Which means I can't panalize?

George H.

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George Herold

You can have the PC house do the panelizing, automatically get their preferred dimensions.

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Winfield Hill

OK I've never done that... still 6.4" (160mm) is not all that much. I've got several pcb's (made with Eagle 4.15) that are bigger than that. I think we paid ~$500 per seat. (there must be some rule that I have to learn a new cad package every ~10-15 years.)

I had a colleague who used gEDA. Anyone else have experience?

George H.

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George Herold

I would try Kicad first George.

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John Devereux
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John Devereux

Thanks John.. .that (Kicad) seems to have a more active community. (and more recent update)

At the moment my old version of Eagle works fine.

George H.

Reply to
George Herold

If you have the full version then its $1k for the upgrade to the Pro version (sch, layout, autorouter).

Cheers

Reply to
Martin Riddle

Dip trace is good (easy to use) and can import eagle boards, libraries and schematics - I don't know about as easy as altium (speeling? - whoo cars) but it is relatively painless. Also the limits are set on pads/holes so a large board making up the front panel or something with pots on it are no problems. A 300 hole free version is available for trial and NFP plus they will give you another 200 holes just for asking (for NFP). All versions are upgradeable - just pay the price difference.

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David Eather

Thanks David.. and every body else, I must have given the wrong impression. Eagle 4.15 is still making nice gerbers on my Win 7 machine... I know how to "fly it " and I'm happy. (in this case 'fly it' means knowing the keyboard/ascii input syntax.) George H.

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George Herold

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