Including lots of tips ttoset you on your way of actual master, which is something most other tutorials lack. I asked if Eagle would go subscription model during the Eagle Hack Chat last week and received silence, though the internet-connected-license was mentioned and people were not happy about it. Altium? http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/eagle Its shame they would pay all that money to acquire Eagle, just to make this folly. I hate Windows 10 more than everyone here combined, but Windows is a necessary evil for most tasks. It would be great if HaD folks can review Diptrace. Seems there are plenty.. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=convert+eagle+to+kicad&t=ffab&ia=software. I somehow survived without MS Office and Adobe products, but then, I am no professional. What do you deem “financially stable” anyway? As of the removal of http://www.cadsoftusa.com it’s not on the Eagle product page. It seems like it should get more mindshare than the near-total silence it receives. That cost is equivalent to over a dozen Pi3 boards every year, and they can also run KiCAD too. EAGLE: Licenza MAKE PERSONAL (Hobbyist Non-Profit) As of Jan 13, 2017, Autodesk has terminated our contract to act as a distributor of CadSoft EAGLE software. :) yup, grumble grumble but I went through exactly the same feelings though now it’s fine, you quckly learn to lvie with it and quickly forget jsut how bloody hard it was to start. (The interesting question is whether there WILL be additional changes. All the excess that “professional” tools offer is fluff. Say someone buys Autodesk and decides Eagle is not worth keeping. Be careful – it counts vias as pads! It’s awesome. Doing it that way, means I’ll get three boards… One for each axis. Moving to $65/mo? Nobody will be using it a few years from now. Get started with the basic tools of the Autodesk EAGLE and learn how to draw a simple schematic. The other two are, but are tied to work, as well (different venue). It’s a Q&A regarding the acquisition. Been very happy with it for years. At Autodesk’s request, Licensee agrees to destroy or return to Autodesk or the Reseller from which they were acquired all copies of the Previous Version. I appreciate that the Eagle and KiCad data is multifaceted (or whatever the term is) and thus a board layout might look great but actually be missing schematic or footprint details. We need to delete this. Heck, just make it the same price as Eagle for 4 and unlimited space, but constrain in other features only pros need. Don’t worry – even we devs curse kicad all the time, but it works, is still evolving, and you can work around most of its limitations. Our goal for the future is simple – make PCB design software accessible and affordable for every engineer. Takes about 2 hours total but has a simulated, build-able board at the end (yes, with terrible soldering): https://contextualelectronics.com/learning/getting-to-blinky-4-0/. You are trying to switch from the old hobbyist/start-up license to a personal use license. Altium CircuitMaker is basically all of Altium Designer, minus length tuning, rigid flex, and xSignals. Try Linux Mint OS and the KiCAD PPA. Altium Designer is their top of the line. Get a free, limited version of … Autodesk is actually doing the community a favor (not their intention of course). I was using Diptrace and went to KiCAD, which is OK now that I am used to it. Eagle? Autodesk reserves the right to require Licensee to show satisfactory proof that all copies of any Previous Version have been Uninstalled and, if so requested by Autodesk, destroyed or returned to Autodesk or the Reseller from which they were acquired.”. Within such one hundred twenty (120) day period, except as set forth in Section 1.2.2 (Exception for Relationship Program Licensees), (a) Licensee must cease all use of any Previous Version and Uninstall all copies of the Previous Version, and (b) upon expiration of such period, such Previous Version will no longer constitute Licensed Materials but rather will be deemed to be Excluded Materials and Licensee will no longer have a license for any such Previous Version. I guess your “free version” is sucking as much data and infos as it can to resell those info for advertisement, so it´s not free. every aspect of these cost in some way. You can change the direction in which turns are made by right-clicking your mouse. So KiCAD is just not good enough for today’s standards. Stick a fork in you…, jumping for joy – dunno – the forums I volunteer on will be a busier place now – no idea yet if that is good or bad ;-). I’m willing to bet my balls that once the “phone home” licensing part has been cracked, Eagle will be pirated way more than it ever was before. That’s the beauty of open source software. This is exactly the point I’ve made to my kids: Autodesk eagle is powerful easy to use pcb design and schematic software for every engineer. Why would he? Learn More. Use 6×6 lumber to build simple railings, as in the plans. Was just getting ready to shell out for the intermediate version for the makerspace. Still O(n), so not an improvement from my perspective. Autodesk EAGLE 8.3 comes loaded with a new set of reusable circuitry for some of our most sought-after designs including the Xbee Explorer, LiPo Charger, LilyPad and more. It’s all fine, everyone still wins eventually. Currently EEschema is undergoing a major rewrite to get some features working the devs/community wanted for years but wasn’t possible. And now you have it, a subscription model. You reap what you sow. For me I’d rather go for KiCAD for a proper stand alone package I can use how I like. In earlier versions, this was more complicated but now you only need to click the Open Library Manager button and go to the Available tab. It’s great, I use Orcad at work, and used Altium back in when I was an university student. So I really don’t see what you’re complaining about. For some unknown reason, this nice feature is hidden in the design rule checks. Ditto this, all the great places I can sit down with my laptop and not be disturbed while working don’t have Internet. I was using the previous version just because there was nothing else free that did boards bigger than credit cards (company was still in start-up status so expensive software for a few boards was not a welcomed option). There is Diptrace, Design Spark or Altium products which are orders of magnitude better and more capable. It is affordable, easy to use, and is already used in the market, making it the go-to program for most projects. It’s much more powerful, a dedicated PCB->CAM program, with more flexibility (works with gerbers, excellon, SVG…), with object creation tools, nice GUI but also scriptable…, Any experience on the eagle -> kicad converters out there? I would have to upgrade to the $1200 package. Software developers should not design UIs. Same here, I felt betrayed to the bones when Adobe switched to subscription based release (before that I happily paid my 300€ for the 18-month upgrades on a shiny disc). Even Eagle’s highest end offering is more expensive and less capable than Altium’s Circuit Studio after 12 months. This article should have come with bags of popcorn. I had a copy of Eagle before they had a Mac version. Also, pay attention to pin spacing. .. but now i HAVE to switch. On top of all this, the free version of this software is available for download on AUTODESK website. Notice how the net, wire, line, whatever you want to call it, went the exact opposite way of what we desired and connected? Sure, Autodesk IS a huge company and going bankrupt is very unlikely. Yep, sociopath…. I keep thinking that i could probably get away with a standard license and then i try to drop a bga and a pair of sodimm sockets. That is the same as filling up your car with petrol and driving off without paying. I just checked Cadsoftusa. In Autodesk EAGLE 8.3, the development team has done away with the need to manually download and add SparkFun libraries to the EAGLE libraries directory. Diptrace is a lot like Protel, which can only be a good thing, and worth looking at again. However, my main concern is not with the pricing (though irritating), my concern is with the dependency on an internet connection and Autodesk continuing to run servers for it. I never got into Eagle.