I use professionally. It was the best that our small company could afford. Here are some tips that will save you mucho grief.
1) This is the biggie. Make your own parts library. Then put any part that you have to create in that library. As well, put a copy of any standard library part in your library AFTER you've verified that the part, especially the footprint is valid. Then put that library under SubVersion or whatever version control system you use. I call my library 00johh.lbr. The "00" makes it appear first in the library list. 2) another biggie. Validate any part that you take from an Eagle library. They are recklessly careless with those parts. I've found silk screens on the solder side and even individual pins on the wrong side. I lost a board run only once because of this but it was enough to make me extremely paranoid. 3) LOOK AT YOUR GERBERS! It takes a pretty long while and it's tedious work (I print mine out on an 11X17 printer and check off every feature with a highlighter as I go) but it's vital. Eagle doesn't always produce Gerbers like the board appears on the screen. Especially if you get caught by #2 above. I use gerbv which is a Linux tool but I think there's a version for the mac's almost-unix OS. John On 02/26/2012 02:12 PM, Jim Hickstein wrote: > In case anyone is following my progress, I started with EAGLE. It works > fine on the Mac. I can tell it's not quite native (it even has a man(1) > page!), but it's no problem. One afternoon with the tutorial, and I > have a schematic. -- John DeArmond Tellico Plains, Occupied TN http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.