Re: Newbie guide to "Eagle"?

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:31:02 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

boB wrote:

On 12 Dec 2006 16:02:16 GMT, Robert Latest <boblatest@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


On 12 Dec 2006 07:00:41 -0800,
rickman <gnuarm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
in Msg. <1165935641.022758.183880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I have used Eagle before and I found it to be very clumsy to learn.

That's because its user interface predates anything resembling modern
GUI standards, but once you get the knack of it it allows you to
work very quickly.

robert



I used to use PADS many years ago, then used Eagle for a few years,
and am now back to PADS again... EAGLE was OK for those few years,
but now that I've gone back to PADS again, I believe that the
developers at Eagle should look at what their competition does.

Eagle could be MUCH better if they'd do some engineering on it.
Having said that, there ARE a couple (few??) things that even Eagle
does better than PADS, I think. Like, the pan and zoom methods.

Eagles BOM capability sucks big time !


It does but you can write ULPs for that or take an existing one and
modify it. The lack of additional part fields is, however, a huge minus
IMHO.


The lack of additional part fields is, however, a huge minus
IMHO.

I totally agree. If Eagle had the capability to have more fields,
and be able to change and print those individual fields out with the
existing style of Eagle BOM output, it would be fine.

Cad-Soft (and Pads) should look at their competition's products
closely, and use both of the products to see why one is better than
the other in various ways.

I think that CadSoft, being a German company, may keep them from
looking at things the way us westerners do though, so looking at the
competition ~may~ not help.

boB

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