EAGLE CAD Moving to Subscription Model

[systems_glitch 110]

link to the Hack a Day article: http://hackaday.com/2017/01/19/autodesk-moves-eagle-to-subscription-only-pricing/

Feeling pretty good about that decision to move to KiCAD with the 4.0.0 release

Edited January 25, 2017 by scratchytcarrier
fixed broken URL

[scratchytcarrier 105]

I Think I'll just stick with my tried and true Autocad R15/2000 bootleg!

[systems_glitch 110]

Oh man, board layout with AutoCAD We had some legacy products at previous jobs where the layouts were all AutoCAD from back in the DOS days. Using a real EDA tool makes life *so* much easier!

[scratchytcarrier 105]

I haven't ever designed a circuit board but I do have some disks full of monsters (binders full of women?) and science-fiction robots I designed on a whim about that long ago that I've been poking around with lately. Amazing how with Autocad the "if you don't use it you lose it" rule applies, I've been away from it long enough that I'm actually needing to use the textbook. 15 years ago I knew that thing like the back of my hand.

(Good thing I had the foresight to record my master ISO file to azo CDR disk. The MD5 and SHA256 sums I generated back then check out perfectly today. Heh, try THAT with a green CDR!)

[systems_glitch 110]

You sure do forget all the little tricks and keyboard shortcuts in a hurry!

 

Don't trust bulk pack bargain bin CD-Rs with important data?! I've got a few spindles of Verbatim archival grade stuff for work and really important permanent backups. Stuff that changes some times gets put on Magneto-Optical cartridges.

[scratchytcarrier 105]

Don't trust bulk pack bargain bin CD-Rs with important data?!

I don't. I used a Verbatim azo disk ($40 for a 25-pack at Border's Books in 2002!). These days when I do have to record a disk (hardly ever anymore it seems) it's a Tayo Yuden.

And now there's "M disk". I'm not equipped to run that format yet but intend to be by this summer.