- Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:27 pm
#98725
Biggest headache I've had with Eagle is that the UI doesn't conform to usual metaphors for graphic interfaces, most generally in that you pick the action before you pick the subject. For example, instead of simply select, copy, and paste to duplicate something, you have to pick duplicate and then pick the item. Duplicating a group is worse, since first you have to define the group, then pick duplicate, and then use a magic ctrl-right click to specify the selection instead of what you click on.
I've used stuff like that (at $8k a seat!) back in the eighties, but finding that the eagle schematic editor worked like that was a real annoyance. If it behaved more like the long string of graphics packages dating back to the Xerox Star and progressing to MacDraw and the various mainstream packages like Visio, Freehand, Corel, etc, it would be a lot easier to pick up.
More specific gripes are that pin connections aren't made within an radius, but only if the pin end is currently on a grid point and the net hits that same grid point. Likewise, moving wire end to a pin doesn't make a connection, but moving a pin end to a different pin end does. It's just hideously inconsistent. The board editor has a number of odd quirks when adding bends, unrouting segments, and weird shadow vias that seem to magically appear and disappear without much rhyme or reason.