Nick, All,
I was gobsmacked when the licensing model for Eagle V8 was announced. I
was expecting/hoping for a model along the lines of the Fusion 360 3D
package i.e. free for hobbyists, education and small businesses (less
than < $100k turnover).
I did look around at other free or low cost offerings but like you I
have a huge time investment in Eagle and have many times many Eagle
library components draw up. My brother uses Design Spark so I did look
at it carefully. But I have stuck with Eagle 7.7. I realise this is a
dead-end product but I'm still hopeful that Autocad will think again and
change the model.
I don't think there is anyway that Autocad can "turn off" Eagle 7.7?!?
Grahame
On 13/08/2017 14:21, Nick wrote:
As all Eagle users will know, Eagle was acquired from Premier Farnell
at the start of the year and Eagle 8, the new version, has a
completely different licensing model - it's now subscription based,
starting at USD 15/pcm for the "standard" version and going up to USD
65/pcm for the "professional" ones.
I'm a long-time Eagle user, probably for more than 15 years, so have a
lot invested in it in terms of libraries and existing designs.
However, I can stake USD 100/pa (the annual up-front cost of the USD
15/pcm option). but you need to be connected to the internet every
couple of weeks for your Eagle license to stay active. If it expires,
I'm told that you can still generate Gerbers from your old designs and
even export in the old V7 format using the free version - our old
licenses and software will keep working.
What have Eagle folk here done about this - just wondering... It
annoys me slightly, but I guess the previous licensing model was not
paying the bills and Autocad are promising great things...
Thoughts?
Nick
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