It took me about a month to become comfortable with Kicad, so if I can do it anyone can ;-)I have never needed back-annotation, but I have needed to do larger boards that wouldn't have been possible (without paying) in the Free Eagle.So for me it was a no-brainer. I would love to have a reliable way to load in Eagle schematics and parts, but making new parts is not too hard.One thing I like is the 3D board view, although currently I have a weird issue where some parts do not show up on the render. Steve From: Jim Brain <brain@jbrain.com> To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2017 3:56 PM Subject: Re: MOS/CSG Kicad library On 11/9/2017 2:34 PM, Ruud@Baltissen.org wrote: > > I just found out that Eagle is a part of AutoDesk (remember > AutoCAD?) now. Shouldn't be a problem but I often have the feeling > when taken over by a big company, the product becomes worse. > Conformation: it is only available in 64 bits. The main problem at present is that they have went to a "subscription" model, so you can't buy a perpetual license anymore. I suspect that those who own v6-v7 of EAGLE will just keep their copies for quite a while, as those use the new XML format. The v5 users (yourself) are more challenged, as you can't read the XML format and I am not sure you can buy v7.X from anywhere (maybe someone looking to sell their old copy?) I know the FLOSS folks have all embraced KiCAD, and kudos to Steve for moving to it. I have grown so accustomed to EAGLE over the last 14 years, and with the lack of auto back-annotation in KiCAD, I found no value in moving. -- Jim Brain brain@jbrain.com www.jbrain.com Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-11-09 22:00:02
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