yes eagle is best, i'd used loads of them, and never got great mastery...then found eagle, and wham, no problem...like falling out of bed...the thing is, the big corporate pcb layout packages want to get rid of eagle and get all eagle users over to
their package....also, layout consultancies hate eagle because customers can use it themselves to lay out pcbs without using their services...
Thats why i wonder if those with a financial vested interest in getting rid of eagle have purchased it in order to trash it.
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Anybody who knows the structure of a pcb will be able to lay out pcbs in eagle......in fact, thats how they all should be but they arent .
Germany and China are majority eagle users...the worlds biggest industrial countries....makes sense.