Eagle is a feature-rich application developed by CadSoft, and it is used for developing circuit boards, which are basically used in every electronic device. The piece of software comes with appealing interface and an easy-to-use menu that will grant the Mac users quick access to all of the features. The tool provides a wide variety of examples of circuit boards, and it makes it easy to switch between different models, as the browsing of the circuit boards opens a small window. This particular application does not burden your Mac, being rather cheap on resource consumption, so it allows the Mac users to use various applications simultaneous.
Although the tool comes with complete examples of circuit boards, it is safe to say that is not designed for beginners, as the Mac users must have Electronics knowledge in order to properly use the tool, otherwise it would look like a series of drawings of circles and numbers. The zooming tool it provides allows the Mac users to not only zoom in and out the whole project, but also to set up two points that will define the zooming area.
All taken into consideration, it is safe to say that Eagle is a complex editor for printed circuits; it has an appealing interface, is easy-to-use and it provides a large database of printed circuits.
v6.1 [Jan 27, 2012]
- Added a note about the settings for dimension objects to the online help of the DIMENSION command.Miscellaneous:
- The new option "Legacy mouse wheel mode" in "Options/User interface" can be activated under Mac OS X to switch back to the mouse wheel handling as it was in version 5.
- Online help for SCRIPT command: Add a section about script labels. * Bugfixes:
- Fixed a missing screen update after updating a symbol in a schematic drawing, where the new version of the symbol extends outside the surrounding rectangle of the entire drawing.
- Fix for tweaking off polygon orphans in CAM processor output with positive coordinates.
- Correct support for new members "headline" and "description" of ULP types UL_BOARD, UL_SCHEMATIC and UL_SHEET.
- Fixed subtracting texts with vector font from polygons if placed in packages.
- Fixed changing the font of texts if the drawing has set 'Always Vector Font'.
- Fixed handling attributes with empty names in elements when updating aboard from before version 6.0 (they will be silently ignored).
- Fixed subtracting texts with vector font from polygons in CAM processor output.
- Fixed erroneously checking polygons with rank 6 and polygons with a smaller rankin the DRC.
- Fixed jumping initial airwire position when routing in special cases.
- Fixed a crash in the ROUTE command when routing a track that provokesan immediate optimize.
- Fixed a crash in the Control Panel's tree view when renaming an item, andthe new name already exists.
- ADD command: Ensure proper initialization of part values if the device has the attribute'VALUE' set or the eaglerc switch Sch.Cmd.Add.AlwaysUseDeviceNameAsValue is set.
- Fixed a crash in the RIPUP command if used in a non-board drawing.
- Fixed automatic generation of part names in project context: The names of elementswithout a corresponding part were not taken into account.
- Paste from file: If nets/signals from paste buffer are connected to an existingnet/signal, update netclasses of paste buffer nets/signals accordingly.Warn the user before in case of changes.
- Fixed a crash if deleting a group containing a net wire and a junctionin special constellation.
- Smashed Elements/Instances: Ensure load of drawing in case of multiple identicalplaceholder texts like NAME or VALUE.
- Fixed drawing of polygons of mirrored elements with the CAM Processor(use mirrored layer if applicable).
- Fixed a possible crash if opening a library panel tree containinga library that would imply an update report.
