Another thing I love about Eagle, no backwards or forwards anything. MAKE sure you always have the schematic and layout open or you will break connectivity. I used to use Douglas Cad Cam (I turned Soldano on to that and he still uses it) and then Protel. Bruce Egnater actually turned me on to Eagle. I wouldn't assume Eagle is really missing anything, I used to use Protel and I am not wanting if fact get things done much quicker in Eagle, Eagle has come a LONG way in the past 5 years and the price is tough to beat. I even use this machine to cut pearl inlays for guitars 009" between traces with my standard cutter. This was done on my router with my MITS router, We have done surface mount parts as well, I just need. My arm can also be twisted if you send me Eagle files since I have a PCB router, I can do double sided or single sided PCB's Usually much cheaper than a board house if you only need a few, you need eyelets for thru holes though, if my time allows. I never use the libraries supplied by any program but use them as a foundation and copy the parts in to your own libraries. I recommend learning to make your own components library early on, you'll need it.Īgreed but it is a mistake not to check all libraries in any program. VacuumVoodoo wrote:A word of warning regarding Eagle (which I have been using since 2004).Īlways check component PCB footprints in Eagle libraries against original datasheets, especially for switches etc, they're not always correct. I've designed some crazy circuits using Multisim's help including a piece of medical test equipment with 140dB of gain over a few kHz bandwidth (was looking at nV level signals from the brain!). It's pretty accurate this way or you can do the more common setup->click run->view results type sims with a bit more accuracy. They also have simulated real-time equipment (function gens, spec analyzer, oscope, DMM, etc.) that you can adjust while you run a simulation (like working with real equipment). This program has the most models built in of any program I've ever seen, and they all work. I still use Eagle for layout but for simulations I now use NI's Multisim.
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These also do simulations which I loved one software package that does everything right is rare! I've also used Orcad (blech!) for stuff but find that program is miserable to use and refuse to use it now if I have a choice. I've done medical circuits, RF stuff and pretty much anything audio/tube related with Eagle and it works beautifully, especially once you learn the quirks of the interface.įWIW I used to use Protel 99 and then moved onto Altium Designer, both great and very powerful (too much so really for our needs) packages that are bloody expensive. I've done everything from single layer boards to six layer boards in Eagle (it can do like 16 layers I think) using anything from 0201 resistors to inductors that can handle many amps of current. Many professionals and big companies use Eagle now, it's not quite industry standard but like at TI there were many groups who used this software to do all of their boards. There's also a lot of downloadable libraries which I have had great success with - it seems the CadSoft guys actually check out the models before they post them online. They give you stuff like database management (make quick BOM's and such), missed connection zooming tools, automatic parts placement tools, heck the list goes on and on. For this it helps to know how the manufacturing process works.Īlso I use a lot of the little downloadable scripts available from Eagle's website. It takes some practice making boards and screwing up little details before you get it right, but this is true of any layout software. Once you use it for a while you'll build up a nice library of parts that have been confirmed good which also speeds up your work dramatically. Once you get good with Eagle the time from starting schematic capture to finishing most layouts will be less than a day, more typically only a few hours. There's sort of a learning curve but IMHO this is some of the best schematic capture/layout software available, especially for our level of usage (simple 1-2 layer boards). I started using Eagle when I started at PAiA (about when 5.0 came out).
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