Eagle: beginner's caustic rant

[kender]

Folks,

I’m not new to circuit design and board layout. I have designed a dozed commercial quality boards in OrCAD, about as many hobby/proto boards in ExpressPCB and a few in Protel DXP (before it was renamed into Altium). So far, I’ve logged only 2 hours on Eagle, though. That included skimming through the tutorial that came with the installation, and an ongoing attempt to redraw a small schematics in Eagle.

The moniker Eagle is actually an acronym for Easily Applicable Graphic Layout Editor. The letter G looks a lot like C, So, I think there was a typo, and instead of “Graphic” it should have been “Command-line”.

I’ll tinker with Eagle some more until the Stockholm effect kicks in. That approach worked for OrCAD.

- Nick

 

[pissant]

Wah wah! I spent a whole two hours with a new tool and it does everything differently than the software that I'm used to.... wah wah! ;-)

 

[Lev_Isaakovich]

for Kender: EAGLE is very easy to earn. To avoid typing every command, just list most frequently used command in "scr\eagle.scr" file, they will appear on menu as text and/or icons. Also set "user interface" options (I use text mode, by the way). Do not put ALL command - or menu will be longer than monitor height.
Lev.