Re: New program to design PCB 3D available !!!


JeffM wrote:
Robert Latest wrote:
Do you know Eagle3D?
http://www.matwei.de/doku.php?id=en:eagle3d:eagle3d

To all who would use Cadsoft EAGLE: BEWARE.

Cadsoft's most-recently-implemented (DRM) strategy
has them viewing all of their users as thieves
--those using the fully paid version as well as cracked versions.

It seems that the Eagle program has a hardcoded-in list of all serial
numbers that are known (to CadSoft) as having been cracked at some time.
This serial number is stored within schematics and boards as well, and
whenever Eagle opens a file it checks if it hasn't been created with a
cracked version, and if so, refuses to open it.

What I didn't know was that this scheme applies to cut-and-pasted files as
well (which of course it has to in order to work efficiently), and
apparently (as can be inferred from the newsgroup post
1jisj25b43ucaddcu7sm9n82i8sk98v2ut@xxxxxxx) each file contains a list of all
serial numbers of programs that ever had to do with it or portions of it.

Now I've never been bitten by any of this because I've never used stuff from
cracked versions, but what puzzles me is CadSofts refusal to manually unlock
the files for a paying customer. They've always struck me as very helpful
and supportive.

The lesson from this is: When you get Eagle stuff from other people (even if
they have a license), run it through the scripting ULP and rebuild the
schematic in your own copy of Eagle.

--Daniel

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