Eagle 4.16 review
DownloadThe EAGLE Layout Editor is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs).
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The EAGLE Layout Editor is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs).
The name EAGLE is an acronym, which stands for Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor.
The program consists of three main modules - Layout Editor, Schematic Editor, Autorouter - which are embedded in a single user interface. Therefore there is no need for converting netlists between schematics and layouts.
What's New:
EAGLE now also runs on Mac OS X (with X11).
The BOARD command now places elements in the third and, if necessary, fourth quadrant of the newly created board in case there are too many of them to fit into the second quadrant.
The DRC no longer checks polygons in packages against objects that have no electrical potential for clearance errors.
When placing a via at a point where an SMD exists that is connected to a signal, the via is now automatically added to that signal.
With active f/b annotation any operations that would combine two signals in the board and would result in combining two nets in the schematic are now forbidden and need to be done in the schematic.
Changed the default entries in the drill diameter menus to metric values.
It is now possible to zoom into a drawing up to a factor where the internal editor resolution (0.1 micron) is visible. The checkbox "Options/User interface/Limit zoom factor" is still present and checked by default, but there is no more warning message when it is turned off.
When running as user 'root' under Linux and Mac OS X (which is only necessary to do the licensing and should be avoided under normal operation), EAGLE no longer sets the "Projects" path to avoid a popup message at program start, and it also doesn't save the ~/.eaglerc file any more.
Improved opening the Control Panel's "File/Open/Project" menu in case there are many subdirectories that do not contain EAGLE projects.
Coordinates are no longer snapped to the current grid if they are entered textually with the '>' modifier, as in (> 1 2).
Requirements:
Mac OS X with X11.
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