Eagle for Mac

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• hard to use

  Elec_torFebruary 10, 2015

  Pros

  can find some tutorials

  Cons

  not nearly as good as other free tools like Upverter library is tiny

  Summary

  this feels like a really old, and slow program. I would much rather us Upverter on my Mac

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• Nice CAD package for making printed circuit boards.

  trewittDecember 23, 2010

  Pros

  Free for small (up to 3" x 4") boards. Runs on both Macs and PCs.

  Cons

  It's hard to search the parts libraries. Or, maybe I just don't know how to search properly.

  Summary

  sparkfun.com has a nice set of tutorials. There also several tutorials on YouTube.

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• Good So Far

  Jan KingSeptember 20, 2004

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have done a fair bit of research looking for a program to make circuit boards for my business. I have tried PCB Warrior and bought it but it has almost no library and it has been difficuilt to make things work well for it. PCB warrior seems more suited to metric units than inches. While looking for the reviews this Eagle software kept coming up as one of the best for the IBM. I got an IBM and started trying the software last week and noticed that they now have it for system 10.3. I tried the program on the IBM while waiting for my OS upgrade to 10.3 to come. Getting the program going with OS 10.3 was not easy as the instructions did not help much, however, I got it running by accident. (It uses X11 which I have never heard of) The IBM version and Mac are pretty much identical which is interesting, however, there is no right click on the mouse on my mac. It has worked well so far pretty good for them on a first try, however, I have not been able to get the group command to work and have not tried exporting Gerber files yet. The program has a huge library which has been very usefull and has been easy to learn and a huge number of sub programs. I made a circuit board in one day of learning. I have only been using it now for a week but its great that there is now such an advanced program available to the mac, so for all those others out there looking for good PCB software I think we found it.

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