[TriEmbed] old versions of Eagle?

[Brian]

On 1/22/2016 9:42 AM, Martin Brooke via TriEmbed wrote:
> I think saying Egale is intuitive is a big stretch.

If that's directed at me, let me clarify in my defense:

Not so sure I said Eagle WAS intuitive; just that KiCAD is less so. 
Here's a comparative example:

Task: Change out one part for another with a different footprint.

Eagle: Delete the part in the schematic.  Add a new part and wire it up. 
  PCB layout brings in changes automagically; place the new footprint 
and route to it.

KiCAD: Delete the part in the schematic.  Add a new part and wire it up. 
  Click the button in the schematic editor to launch the footprint 
selector.  Choose a footprint and click Save in the footprint selector. 
  Click the Generate Netlist button in the schematic editor (which is 
three buttons to the left of the footprint selector button, in a 
visually separate button group, which I submit is 
*counter*intuitive--two consecutive steps in a tool labeled in English 
should be side-by-side in English reading order...or at a minimum 
side-by-side).  Click the Read Netlist button in the PCB layout editor. 
  Delete the old footprint and the traces routed to it.  Place the new 
footprint and route to it.

Other headache-inducing problems with current KiCAD:
- Horrible handling of github-sourced libraries.  No automatic caching, 
and automatic attempts to re-sync every library, every time the library 
is accessed.  If the library can't be synced for some reason, it's 
completely unavailable (AFTER waiting for timeouts).
- No control over the default project directory (that I have found)
- Can't reshape a graphic line in cvpcb; must delete and redraw (e.g. 
pcb edge cuts..miss your click by one snap distance?  start over.)

The defense rests. :-D