[TriEmbed] old versions of Eagle?

Robert Gasiorowski rgresume at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 19:04:24 CST 2016


I find Eagle to be extremely easy.
There's a learning curve (every drawing/design tool has one,) but once you
understand the basics, it's a piece of cake.
High price is another thing, they should definitely lower it to make Eagle
more popular.

Rob.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Brian via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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