Trying to keep an open mind about v8.0 and hoping that the licensing issues
will work themselves out....
For for now, seeing what's different. First thing I noticed is that EAGLE
finally has implicit grouping. I suggested this years ago and finally it's
made it in. Basically, if you don't have a command active and you draw a
rectangle it will create an EAGLE group as if you ran the EAGLE group
command (not persistent groups like other CAD software has, but essentially
a temporary group for the next command, like EAGLE has always had).
So that is great. That will save lots of mouse clicks once I get used to
it.
But.....
Now I get an error beep on the first left-mouse button click whenever a
command isn't active, including the first corner of a group. That is super
annoying. For instance, in the schematic editor, a left-click anywhere
(with no command active) will beep AND start creating the first line in a
polygon for creating a group. Very similar in PCB editor.
Also, when I run the group command I get a beep on the first mouse click
even when EAGLE should know that clicking in an area with no objects is
actually expected.
I assume that this is maybe something that somehow got missed (maybe the
sound was down) when implementing the implicit group function. But it
should be fixed as it is really annoying.
Cheers,
James.
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