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A while ago I used EAGLE for my boards and I had so many problems

pins not connecting to wires in schematics

autorouter saying 100% but having to rip my hair out with tons of green wires.

and font issues with some boardhouses.

and hole sizes with hole plating issue (with Olimex, now I use batchPCB)

etc, etc.

ARGH!!!

so I switched to FreePcb (http://www.freepcb.com/)

It’s open source and free!!!

I do all my own routing

I dont have any of the issues before with EAGLE

No limitations or irritations

and my boards come back great

My question is, do you have or plan on creating a library for your parts, on freepcb?

Thanks

-Mike

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I also use FreePCB although I think the part editor is so quick and easy that building the parts on the fly is almost easier than searching for them in a library.

I also think TinyCad is a really good schematic software that’s also free, just in case you’ve been looking for one.

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I doubt SparkFun will release a library, considering they just switched over to Eagle a while back.

I haven’t ever had any of those problems you mentioned with Eagle. I have been using Eagle for a few years now and once you get used to it, it is a great tool. SparkFun using it says alot too, considering the amount of PCB’s they name.

Yet, if all you want to do is download a program, and make a PCB, then Eagle isn’t for you, it takes a while to get use to its quirks.

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I passionatly hate Eagle :x

FreePCB is my weapon of choice, even if, as it may be, that I will never get a SparkFun Library, that I will endure and create components by hand in the down-to-earth footprint editor.

oh well 8)