PCB - Cadsoft EAGLE users - help needed

[dhouston]

I've used P.C Logic - Circuit Layout for several years but they went out of business.

I found Eagle had too difficult a learning curve, plus it's costly for the fully featured versions.

I've been looking for something easy to learn and inexpensive, yet with advanced features. I found it in Sprint - Layout. Among its features is automatic ground planes with user settable clearance - a single mouse click turns it on or off. It doesn't allow precise X,Y placement of parts but, when necessary, it's quick and simple to break a part into individual entities which can be placed by X,Y and then regroup the individual entities. There's a demo version but I didn't try it so cannot tell you its limitations. The learning curve was a matter of minutes. At $50, it is an amazing bargain.

• http://www.abacom-online.de/uk/html/sprint-layout.html

[savnik]

I've used P.C Logic - Circuit Layout for several years but they went out of business.

I found Eagle had too difficult a learning curve, plus it's costly for the fully featured versions.

I've been looking for something easy to learn and inexpensive, yet with advanced features. I found it in Sprint - Layout. Among its features is automatic ground planes with user settable clearance - a single mouse click turns it on or off. It doesn't allow precise X,Y placement of parts but, when necessary, it's quick and simple to break a part into individual entities which can be placed by X,Y and then regroup the individual entities. There's a demo version but I didn't try it so cannot tell you its limitations. The learning curve was a matter of minutes. At $50, it is an amazing bargain.

• http://www.abacom-online.de/uk/html/sprint-layout.html

I use this programm for several years and i have buy all versions.
It's very very easy to learn.