Re: What schematic drawing tool do you use ?

Hello Walter,

Eagle is what I use too. It is reasonably powerful, but be forewarned: there are a lot of bugs, limitations, and idiosyncracies that will have you pulling your hair out until you figure them out. I highly recommend reading the manual and the tutorial closely, even though they are not well written; ...


Absolutely. I had the "luck" that an injury made me lay flat on a bed for a couple days after I bought the license. Oh drat, right before Christmas and I was scheduled to usher one of the Christmas services. So I had plenty of time to study the booklet that came with it numerous times, cover to cover. That paid off. There are too many people who get the software, jump right in and then moan and groan about the more unusual stuff. For example 'cut' in Eagle is often like 'copy' in most other software. That alone can really throw you a curve.

I found the book written ok. A bit of 'German English' but since i speak German that wasn't an issue. The words they chose are sometimes a little outlandish. Took me a while to realize that a 'thermal' is not an ancient health spa back in the times of the Romans but a 'thermal relief'.

Got to be honest here. If I hadn't been forced to bed rest I'd have jumped right in like most everybody else. After all, engineers tend not to read manuals because it is not the manly thing...

Merry Christmas, Joerg

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