In 2000, EAGLE version 4.0 officially dropped support for DOS and OS/2, but now being based on Qt 3[9][10] it added native support for Windows and was among the first professional electronic CAD tools available for Linux.[11] A 32-bit DPMI version of EAGLE 4.0 running under DOS[nb 1] was still available on special request in order to help support existing customers, but it was not released commercially. Much later, in 2015, a special version of EAGLE 4.09r2 was made available by CadSoft to ease installation under Windows 7.
Since I need a lot of functions very often, it is very handy to have shortcuts. Per default, eagle has some, but there are not good placed. But eagle allows to change them very easy. But attention: these shortcuts are saved in the eaglerc file, which contains all current settings you made. This file is read at the start of eagle too.
I was using Eagle for some time and liked the features and functions it gives for a user. As a hobbyist I don't draw much, several schematics per year, but I always thought that I really need more space. This is natural - I use through hole parts, because I am able to solder them at home, with SMD it is more complicated. But using bigger parts at the same time requires more board area. With last limitation of 18 cm2 (10x8 cm, for example) only the professionals could fit in all they want - I cant. Well, for example, I can fit 4x7seg digits, relay and that is all. You would say - purchase the full version and enjoy the full package. From the money perspective - I cant afford to make 2-3 schematics per year for 133 Eur per year. From logic perspective - I will never use all package, like millions of layers, football field size PCB, support, training and all the stuff that pro's would use with paid license, I only need a bit bigger PCB, for example 623,7 cm2 (size of an A4 paper sheet) and the rest is enough with free version. I contacted the support and they recommended to write here for solution. So, guys, give me your thoughts, reply with confirming the problem, advise - if there will be lots of people with similar thoughts, maybe someone at Autodesk would change the situation.
So do you want to use EAGLE professionally or for hobby use? EAGLE premium is very reasonably priced for the professional users it is aimed at and EAGLE Standard is also very capable for professionals who need less in terms of board area and layer count and the price of this is certainly not too much for a hobby budget either. You can't expect Autodesk to make it all available for free just because you have once had a board which is a little bit larger than the area limits of the free version.
hello, am reading through your post and am totally not agreeing with you. If you have to be a customer, then there has to be a two way traffic. The company needs to benefit from your subscription as you benefit from getting more from the best application. You dont need to crack the software, you just need to subscribe. As for using KiCAD, it depends on why you need the design tool .... Imagine if you have a client who is specific that you should make use of eagle eda, will you not loose that client in the name of working with KiCAD? Every software is beneficial and there is always a good reason why some are open source while others you have to pay for them.
I am not 100% sure if this is possible, as per the terms of Autodesk or cadsoft, but i am looking for someone who has a pro license of Eagle v7 which is not in use anymore, and is willing to sell it to me.
Therefore I am hoping I can buy for a reasonable price a professional license of v7, so I can do it all in v7. Most of the features of v9 i am not using anyway, and if i want to use them, i can always open the project in v9.....
I personally hated eagle, (as well as kicad) I was forced to use it as a freelancer as thats what some of my clients used. Now I use Diptrace for schematic and pcb. if my clients dont like it, sorry, Im to old for this now, dont use me then
EAGLE, the Easy Applicable Graphical Layout Editor is a powerful PCB design software tailored to meet the needs of professional engineers, makers and those at school! For more than 25 years, EAGLE has been the PCB design tool of choice for hundreds of thousands of electronic design engineers and developers worldwide. With a large and active engineering and support community and an extensive ecosystem, EAGLE offers much more than pure circuit design.
because eagle has been for many many years the professionals choice when they dont want to spend any money there not going to up and change just because some other tool may or may not be better at the timebut i have to disagree about KiCAD i find it to be overly simplified where it should not be and overly complicated where it should be easy and it crashes too muchim also not an altium fan, i have to use it for work and it was back in the day the best tool you can use but they have lagged behind other free suits
The XML schema included in every installation of EAGLE. You can find it in the Doc folder of your installation, the file is called eagle.dtd.As already mentioned you can extract all of the libraries from a board schematic pair by running the exp-lbrs.ulp that comes with EAGLE. In V6 you can run it directly by going File -> Export -> Libraries.
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