- Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:27 am
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Great idea... and you're right, I'd do my shopping there and not worry about minor price differences if they did that.
You're right that I never really got a solution. And in the end... I dropped Eagle because of it. I now use DipTrace, but I'd be lying if I said that didn't have its share of frustrations. Still, I've done 3 projects with it and they all went to manufacturing and came back with zero issues. Custom footprints is something it does MUCH better (though still not ideal) and that's why I went with it. It would be nice if they'd have an import feature where you could just draw the foot print in a cad program of your choice and import it. That way it would be a ton more precise.
Mostly though, I learned that its not as important as it first seemed. When I can't get a footprint exactly as I need it... "close enough" tends to work just fine.
- Steven
You're right that I never really got a solution. And in the end... I dropped Eagle because of it. I now use DipTrace, but I'd be lying if I said that didn't have its share of frustrations. Still, I've done 3 projects with it and they all went to manufacturing and came back with zero issues. Custom footprints is something it does MUCH better (though still not ideal) and that's why I went with it. It would be nice if they'd have an import feature where you could just draw the foot print in a cad program of your choice and import it. That way it would be a ton more precise.
Mostly though, I learned that its not as important as it first seemed. When I can't get a footprint exactly as I need it... "close enough" tends to work just fine.
- Steven