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[edwin.robledo]

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[julianJTABZ]

Don't you think it's a wee bit late for that? Didn't you already basically kill EAGLE?

You don't need to pretend that there is anything you'd do about it.

Simply come forth and tell everybody "We are going to terminate EAGLE on [date xyz]".

So that at least we can search for alternatives in peace and not have to hope and tremble that there is any future to EAGLE.

[jesper8W75R]

I agree.
It would be very nice to get a decisive statement, so we can look at alternatives.

[csvanberg]

It appears that Autodesk is not fully committed to PCB design, there are companies where this is the ONLY thing they do, you have many programs. PCB design has some 3D design aspects, but very simple. A full blown 3D design program  is not needed, just some simple features to make sure the PCB does not bump into a Mechanical Engineers design.
Bundling EagleCAD with Fusion 360 is pretty much meaningless, the crossover is as I stated not very strong.

Electrical Engineers are not Mechanical Engineers, nor 3D animators...

[hitesh.jangra]

there is no future scope in eagle, industry standards required experience in Altium, OrCAD just because they don't support many things.

[csvanberg]

What "industry standards required experience" are you referring to? Your sentence has grammatical problems.

[tinkercadXSL49]

This thread does have the ironic ring of "the beatings will continue until morale improves"....

From everything I can gather, there is no future in desktop Eagle, which is the only version I want. They've also completely buggered up the response time on 9.6.2 on the Mac - it's absolutely painful to use on anything later than Catalina.

A statement from Autodesk along the lines of "The only version we're supporting going forward is going to be Fusion360  with the 'electronics' view" would actually be a relief, even if unwelcome - it's the hope that kills you.

[csvanberg]

EagleCAD runs MUCH better on Linux than win10/7,  however, Fusion360 is not yet for Linux, I would love if they did provide it, but all the Microsoft cruft hiding in Fusion360 is likely making this a tall order.

A better interface for EagleCAD is needed, but clobbering it on a 3D mechanical package is strange.

Electrical Engineers are not Mechanical Engineers. Some mild 3D in EagleCAD  is OK to generate a STEP file for a mechanical designer, much else is not needed.

MacOS in the engineering world is long shot, using VM's and hoping for the best.

Not even worth trying. All the gorilla PCB design suites are all Win7/10.

[silvio3105]

Few problems with EAGLE:

- Its fusion with Fusion 360 - no one will buy software that someone does not need. If someone wants EAGLE, he has to pay full price for Fusion, even he will not use more that half of software's capabilities. Old EAGLE is dead and no one will use it for proffesional usage.

- Cloud based - I couldn't find any serious company that uses cloud based app. Guess no one wants to depends on cloud.

- Weird library philosophy - Device attributes are not device attributes, they are device's footprint attributes. That's one example. Why every footprint has it's own 3D model? Altium did it better.

- Fusion 360 EAGLE does not save my workspace. Also, grid is by default off.

I hope Fusion 360 (EAGLE) will become independent from could, less HW hungry and better in total. Until then, it's in Beta for me and only for hobbyists.