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Room/2D CAD Mac?
On 12/02/2020 09:52, Theo wrote:
I'd strongly suggest Kicad over Eagle. Kicad is open source and free without any limits as to size or layers. Eagle has gone to a 'cloud based' subscription model - you have to login, it chats to their server before you can use it. A lot of the maker community has moved over to Kicad, which means there are good libraries for lots of parts (although Kicad's library management could be better). The other thing is the Eagle UI is backwards to what most people are used to. Most CAD tools have you select something and then apply an action to it (ie click then delete). In Eagle you select the mode and then the item, so you go into 'Delete' mode and then click on things to delete. That's slightly quicker if you want to apply the action to multiple things, but it's different from the common way of right-clicking on something and selecting an action from a menu when you don't know what actions are available. Eagle doing things backwards like this makes it harder to pick up and does your head in for a while. Theo Thanks for the heads up on kicad  |
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