Announcement: EAN-02 :: Managing EAGLE Directories

Oliver Betz wrote on Thu, 29 January 2009 14:53

The question is whether you want to use the Eagle control panel in

your "big tree of projects". I prefer a good file manager.

To each his own.  I see what you are saying here and other users have suggested that EAGLE be able to open other types of files from Control Panel.  In both cases I see the point, but it's not a big deal for me.  To each his own I guess...

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If you meant my automatic version selection method: As I wrote, it

depends. E.g. whether you have to make small maintenance changes in

old projects. Usually it's much more efficient to use the according

Eagle version than to convert the project to the new Eagle version,

especially if the old files are still Eagle 3. Or consider a

contractor - he must use the same version as his client.

I do consider that case all the time since a large portion of our business is doing custom EAGLE design!  Luckily I only had one project in 3.5 (my own) and we didn't start doing custom work until 4.0 was released--so I don't go back near as far as you do.

I've been asking for a "Save As" feature that would save the project out in older formats.  I realise there are some complications with doing that, but it would very useful for me because different clients want different formats.

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And the point of this app note was to help newbies understand how

 

To avoid misunderstandings: I didn't want to criticize your app note,

just wanted to show that in many cases it's more efficient to use a

different method.

 

things work.

And I don't disagree.  I'm sure your input in this thread has caused some users to consider some new possibilities.  But most users won't come close to that.  In my experience, a large number of users (and users who you would think would know better) still have all their design data in c:\Program Files\EAGLE....

Cheers,

James.

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Oliver Betz wrote on Thu, 29 January 2009 14:53

The question is whether you want to use the Eagle control panel in

your "big tree of projects". I prefer a good file manager.

To each his own.  I see what you are saying here and other users have suggested that EAGLE be able to open other types of files from Control Panel.  In both cases I see the point, but it's not a big deal for me.  To each his own I guess...

Quote:

If you meant my automatic version selection method: As I wrote, it

depends. E.g. whether you have to make small maintenance changes in

old projects. Usually it's much more efficient to use the according

Eagle version than to convert the project to the new Eagle version,

especially if the old files are still Eagle 3. Or consider a

contractor - he must use the same version as his client.

I do consider that case all the time since a large portion of our business is doing custom EAGLE design!  Luckily I only had one project in 3.5 (my own) and we didn't start doing custom work until 4.0 was released--so I don't go back near as far as you do.

I've been asking for a "Save As" feature that would save the project out in older formats.  I realise there are some complications with doing that, but it would very useful for me because different clients want different formats.

Quote:

And the point of this app note was to help newbies understand how

 

To avoid misunderstandings: I didn't want to criticize your app note,

just wanted to show that in many cases it's more efficient to use a

different method.

 

things work.

And I don't disagree.  I'm sure your input in this thread has caused some users to consider some new possibilities.  But most users won't come close to that.  In my experience, a large number of users (and users who you would think would know better) still have all their design data in c:\Program Files\EAGLE....

Cheers,

James.

--

James Morrison  ~~~  Stratford Digital

email:  sales2009@eaglecentral.ca

fax:    888.701.8097

web:    http://www.eaglecentral.ca

Online EAGLE Dealer for US and Canada

EAGLE Design Experts

EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit

--

Browser access to CadSoft Support Forums at http://www.eaglecentral.ca