- Fri Dec 02, 2011 5:28 am
#136510
I'm presently using eagle, but the CAD aspect of that program sucks, which means wrt board outlines (my boards are typically weird shapes - not rectangular....and have to be very precise) I have to use a specific CAD program, save as a DXF (selecting a path where my eagle board is- yawn), convert to an eagle script using dxf2scr.exe (browsing to the the path where my DXF is - sigh), then run the script (selecting a path again!) in Eagle to have my board outline show up in the dimension layer.
It's labourious! (especially if I have to tweak my board layout....got to go through the whole rigamarole again - and I tend to tweak a lot!)
so, even thougH i've gone through the pain of leaning eagle, i'd consider jumping if someone can advise whether there's a better pcb design product out there that has more CAD integrated.
Or failing that can someone outline a better (faster) way of getting something designed in another cad program into eagle ....it's be really cool if Eagle just allowed 'import DXF' then prompted you for which layer......is there a ulp that I've missed?
It's labourious! (especially if I have to tweak my board layout....got to go through the whole rigamarole again - and I tend to tweak a lot!)
so, even thougH i've gone through the pain of leaning eagle, i'd consider jumping if someone can advise whether there's a better pcb design product out there that has more CAD integrated.
Or failing that can someone outline a better (faster) way of getting something designed in another cad program into eagle ....it's be really cool if Eagle just allowed 'import DXF' then prompted you for which layer......is there a ulp that I've missed?