On 01.07.13 18:35, Bruce Layne wrote:
> Eagle had a serious learning curve, but I designed quite a
> few PCBs with it and it was well worth the effort to learn IMO, and it
> was worth the price too for my application. I like that it was
> available in a native Linux version (I suspect it was developed in Linux
> and ported to Windows), and I appreciated that there was a free version
> for students and hobbyists to use for noncommercial applications.
+1 on every point.
Any package providing schematic capture, PCB layout, and auto-routing,
has to have a substantial learning curve. There are two PDF manuals for
Eagle, and a news forum, where users help each other. The first dozen
hours of learning seemed vertical, and making my first component macro
was not as easy as the seventh, but I'm now very comfortable with it,
and it's a joy to work with.
Heck, I might even give the Eagle to HAL stuff a go one of these days.
Erik
--
Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.
- Linus Torvalds
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