Did autodesk fold in on Eagle?

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:31:25 +0100, Morten Leikvoll

wrote:

I got this email from autodesk:

|As of January 7th, 2020, Autodesk EAGLE will now be included as a part

|of a Fusion 360 subscription. All users maintain access to your

|existing EAGLE software while gaining access to Fusion 360 at no

|additional charge.

 

I suspect autodesk is slowly giving up on this business, and that my

long wanted features never will see the day.

It is sad for the Eagle community and a huge threshold to climb for

those of us needing to move to a different software.

From a friend who works at Autodesk.  Eagle as a stand-alone product

is gone,  Now it's just another module.

I don't understand continuing to waste time on Eagle from  a company

which hates it's customers.

KiCAD is FOSS and vastly superior. CERN is funding the project to the

extent that there are a couple of full-time developers working on it

plus the many volunteers.

KiCAD has a module to import Eagle files.  I tried it on my largest

board, one with about 450 components.  Imported with no fuss and I

didn't have to make any corrections.

I'm on the KiCAD developer's list (I'm NOT a developer. I mostly lurk

and occasionally offer experience-based advice.

The newest version is ready for release.  I'm not sure whether it's

actually out there in the free world.  If not, it will be in a couple

of weeks.

The open source hardware community has, for the most part, converted

to KiCAD.

Just do it.

John

John DeArmond

http://www.neon-john.com

http://www.tnduction.com

Tellico Plains, Occupied TN

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autodeskguest  wrote:

 

KiCAD is FOSS and vastly superior.

 

Vastly superior to some perhaps. Lets be honest it's also clunky in a lot of ways, despite the CERN effort for years. I've been trying to learn it for the past few weeks, and there's lots that EAGLE does right that KiCAD doesn't, as far as the user interface goes. EAGLE doesn't try to conform to Windows conventions. It's like the RPN of calculators. I've also been tempted by Pulsonix, because it is written by the same people who did Visula and CadSTAR - the former was spectacularly good, and CadSTAR was pretty good before it got bloated.

Anyway, regardless of my criticism, I'm still planning to move off EAGLE to KiCAD - for now. If better software comes along I'll switch to it.

KiCAD has a module to import Eagle files.

It has a capability to import some EAGLE files. It doesn't import library files, unless that's some feature that's really well hidden.

And the various bits of open source out there that people have written as attempts to fix that, are out-of-date because it looks like KiCAD library format changed.

As a result, I've been busy writing my own code to interwork with KiCAD library file format..

On 1/02/2020 2:15 pm, shabaz wrote:

  wrote:

 

KiCAD is FOSS and vastly superior.

 

Vastly superior to some perhaps. Lets be honest it's also clunky in a lot of ways, despite the CERN effort for years. I've been trying to learn it for the past few weeks, and there's lots that EAGLE does right that KiCAD doesn't, as far as the user interface goes. EAGLE doesn't try to conform to Windows conventions. It's like the RPN of calculators. I've also been tempted by Pulsonix, because it is written by the same people who did Visula and CadSTAR - the former was spectacularly good, and CadSTAR was pretty good before it got bloated.

Anyway, regardless of my criticism, I'm still planning to move off EAGLE to KiCAD - for now. If better software comes along I'll switch to it.

 

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I will give KICAD a go when I make some time. I need to find some

tuition on Kicad native library usage which links symbol and package,

like Eagle does, hence you don't need to link them with every design.

I saw this referred to in a Kicad project I read about a year ago but

have not pursued it further, since.

If anyone knows of such an article describing the process I would

appreciate knowing of it.

Thanks

Warren

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On 01/02/2020 01:41, warrenbrayshaw wrote:

 

I will give KICAD a go when I make some time. I need to find some

tuition on Kicad native library usage which links symbol and package,

like Eagle does, hence you don't need to link them with every design.

Is that a new feature?

To be honest, from what I saw of KiCAD when I tried it, it's a VERY long

way from being a patch on Eagle V7, never mind the latest V9.5.2

I have a permanent license for V7 so I don't need to downgrade to KiCAD.

On 01/02/2020 01:41, warrenbrayshaw wrote:

 

I will give KICAD a go when I make some time. I need to find some

tuition on Kicad native library usage which links symbol and package,

like Eagle does, hence you don't need to link them with every design.

Is that a new feature?

To be honest, from what I saw of KiCAD when I tried it, it's a VERY long

way from being a patch on Eagle V7, never mind the latest V9.5.2

I have a permanent license for V7 so I don't need to downgrade to KiCAD.