Eagle upgrade costs

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I use the Make version of Eagle - something I may now come to regret versus starting with an open source package from the beginning.

I am not using the software for commercial use, rather for DIY audio electronics. But I now need a board area greater than 16cm x 10cm. For my current project, I need about 20cm of length. There appears to be nothing between Make and Ultimate for commercial use (with or without Autorouter which I do not use).

I wanted to check the upgrade cost yet when I enter my user license online to get an instant quote for upgrading I merely get the cost of buying a version from scratch - including an option to buy what I already have for what I have already paid. Rather daft.

How to get the correct upgrade costs? And am I the only one that would like to see a non-commercial offering with a larger board area at a more sensible price? (I will never need 4m x 4m board area, nor more than 4 signal layers.) This is the sort of thing which forces people to learn KiCad or another competitor product.

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On 1/10/2017 7:47 AM, Steve Kale wrote: Hi. Thanks I will email them. It would be good if mattbergren can comment as the leap to Ultimate for DIY use is preventatively expensive. Regretfully I'm about to start watching KiCad tutorials. -- To view any images and attachments in this post, visit: https://www.element14.com/community/message/212734 Hi Steve, You should see some improvements in the pricing starting next week. The site has given some incorrect prices as of late so we should these issues addressed very soon. I'd say check the pricing next week, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Best Regards, Jorge Garcia

autodeskguest · Answer

On 24/03/2017 6:40 a.m., Don Haselwood wrote: John, I'm trying to get my eagle version 4.13 running on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a 64b machine, but the window area with the schematic and board layout is blank, no matter what I do. I did get the transparency issue resolved, but the inability to make anything appear in the work area window remains. It appears to be a Ubuntu 16 issue as I do have an older machine running Ubuntu 14.04 and it is OK.. I wondered if you had that problem, and if so, what you did to fix it. (I've tried all sorts of things I've found online having to do with the 32bit libs, but no success.) As far as upgrade goes--my paid version 4.13 is quite satisfactory for what I do (retired, hobbyist). It produces what I want for the boards and the notion of no additional cost for eagle upgrades just doesn't offer anything. (In my experience, software upgrades offer the hope of something better, but instead replace of old, known problems with new problems yet to be discovered.) Kicad is attractive, but I can hit the right keys with my eagle 4.1 automatically without looking/thinking so continuing with eagle 4.1 (and not a later version!) is quite desirable. -- To view any images and attachments in this post, visit: https://www.element14.com/community/message/219285 Hi Don Start by downloading the last point version of Eagle V4 (4.16r2) as your licence qualifies you for it. ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/program/4.16r2/ Then, I suspect there are some missing linux drivers that you will need to locate. This has been a problem from time to time. Others may be able to give you an exact answer. Failing that search the forum. I suspect E14 is not the place to do that. Search eagle central but let google do the heavy lifting when you have multpile works you wish to search for. e.g site:eaglecentral.ca "linux drivers" "missing" HTH Warren -- ... use NNTP://news.cadsoft.de and a functional news reader like Thunderbird! ... or http://www.eaglecentral.ca browser access to CadSoft EAGLE support forums.

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