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They were well outside my price range though. Just look at Star I mean Open I mean Libre Office.ĭon’t think that Eagle can’t go away? Remember Electronics Workbench? Circuit Designer? I used to see ads for them all the time in the back of electronics magazines. If KiCad or GEDA get abandoned they will likely be forked. Will Eagle be around? Maybe but that decision is entirely on Cadsoft or whoever buys them. more likely… the future’s tools will have perfect import ability because there are no secrets about the file format. Even if some porting work is necessary, I’m sure someone will do that, or. What will our computers be? Intel x86-64? I doubt it! Arm? Maybe. A lot of fun it will be opening those!Īlso, KiCad and Geda will probably run on my hardware in 30 years+ time. The older ones were written in an old DOS word processor I forgot the name of, the newer ones in Word Perfect.
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For example… I have a floppy which is compressed using Windows 95 ‘Double Space’ or whatever they called it and contains papers I wrote for school. Even if it is only old dude(ette) nostalgia some day you are going to want to open it.
I know that when I save a file in an open format I can open them in 10 years, in 20 years, in 30… You may think your stuff will be such old news by then that you won’t care but you will. Those things get argued in the open vs closed source rants even more than the moral thing and nobody wants to hear it. No, I’m not talking about bugs or security issues. Over the years I have learned that once an open source project reaches a certain acceptance level I can trust it far better than any closed source software. That’s not really where I am coming from though.
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Yah, I know, a lot of people are sick of hearing from RMS types that see open vs closed source software as a major moral issue. I’ll go for the open source sollution whenever possible anyway.
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In part this is for the reason kd0pgm mentioned… if I ever outgrow the free version of Eagle (unlikely as that is) the paid ones are just too much. It was pretty quick and easy for me to narrow things down to learning either GEDA or KiCAD. I’m still in the early stages of learning electronic CAD and have been dabbling with Eagle, KiCAD and GEDA. There are detailed instructions on ’s GitHub repository and he also walks through the process in the video.
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The scripts also convert Via’s to Pads, which helps with KiCad’s flood fill, when Via’s have no connections – this part requires some manual intervention and post processing. The Eagle 6.xx PCB files can be directly imported to KiCad. sch to KiCad multi sheets, place global and local net labels for multi sheets, convert multi part symbols, build KiCad footprint modules and symbol libraries from Eagle libraries, create a project directory to store all the converted files, and perform basic error checking. ’s scripts will convert Eagle multi sheet. The five scripts and one include file run sequentially once the first one is run. The entire process took only about 10 to 15 minutes of clean up after running the scripts. Overall, the process works pretty well, and we were able to successfully convert two projects from Eagle. Board conversion is still done using KiCad’s built in converter, since it works quite well. has written a comprehensive set of Eagle to KiCad ULP scripts to convert schematics, symbols and footprints.
But without a netlist to read and check for errors, that’s not too useful either. And for quite some time, KiCad has been able to open Eagle. An Eagle to KiCad ULP exists, but it only converts the schematic, albeit with errors and hence not too helpful. One barrier for those wanting to switch over from Eagle to KiCad has been the lack of a way to convert existing projects from one to the other.
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