Diptrace vs eagle11/6/2022 My two cents about this topic: Eagle vs Diptrace Click to see. Leon Posts: 7, Eagle is now owned by Farnell, it isn't likely to "go under" any time soon! Martin Hodge Posts: 1, Two words CentOS debacle Such feature can be made by professional full-time programmer in approx 2 months including testing. I guess one really needs a comment from someone who is proficient in a number of packages. I'm a hobbyist, but if I can start early in the evening when I get home I can draw a schematic, do a board layout and create the gerbers and have it emailed to the PCB house by midnight.īut at the end of the day, I'm probably not qualified to comment on Eagle vs Diptrace vs Kicad, because I have only ever used one of those. That means I can rip it up and rebuild it many times in an evening. Re Kicad vs Eagle, Andrew Lynch often spends a week in the optimiser running Kicad, and with Eagle I do the same board in about 10 minutes. The free version is is half the size and severely limiting. Categories Boards x which is a Eurocard size and for that I seem to be able to do all that I need to do. Quick Links Categories Recent Discussions. With Proteus I don't even understand the implications of the main restriction on the cheaper versions - namely no cut-outs in power planes.Sign In Register. My background is in high-frequency analogue (I used to work on GaAs MMICs) so I might want to do some fairly high frequency stuff. The general advice, which is sensible, is to try the various packages, but my feeling is that I could get used to any of them as I don't yet have a particular way of working. Costs are important but so is time - I don't have much to spare - so I didn't want to invest a lot into learning one tool and then finding it can't do what I want a few months down the road. Though I'm an electronic engineer by training, I switched to Computer Science 10 years ago but like to keep up my electronics so its a hobby but also self-training. I now use KiCAD for home stuff and I also use it in work, the latest stable 4.0 RC2, for free, I cannot fault, development is active and it works like a charm! What you will probably have to do is play with both packages and choose the one that is right for you. I have used several packages over the years, I used to use EAGLE, I use Altium in work, and we have a Proteus license, as well as a few others (CADStar etc) for legacy projects, I wanted to move away from EAGLE to something that had 3D visualisation, so I was drawn to DT, naturally, but I never got on with it personally, so went back to EAGLE, I tried DT a few times since, did a few projects in the freeware version, but didn't find it that fun to use. how many parts are in the standard library then they both carry an ample amount, but you will no doubt find one missing that you need, so in any package, expect to have to create your own. Proteus has the edge by using tabs for schematic and PCB capture as of v8, Diptrace runs as two separate programs, I prefer the library management and creation of Proteus personally, but the DT one is fine, people are frustrated by lack of development with Diptrace from what I understand, Proteus support is good, not sure about DT, their sales team are quick to respond! If you, like most others do, are asking about library content, i.e. EAGLE is a standard product, all packages have their quirks. Proteus, as you have already said, has the VSM / Simulation stuff, which is quite useful sometimes. No length matching or impedance calcs on either. (I have a background in laying out high frequency GaAs MMICs many years ago but have no experience with pcbs - I'm wanting to get into this for both hobby and educational purposes so Diptraces non-profit licence looks very attractive.) Are there any Proteus users who also use Diptrace and can tell me why it may be worth paying (a lot more) for it? Being UK based I'm quite keen to use a UK product but I find their lack of hobbyist support a bit annoying. (I guess Eagle is another contender but it's slightly quirky approach means I'd prefer to use a more standard product.) How about libraries? I've down loaded the demo version but I don't have sufficient experience yet to know if I'm missing something. One difference is the simulation facilities, but are there features such as matching track lengths, calculating line impedances that one or other has. cheaper than Altium but not free), but I still find it hard to get a succinct over view of what, spending a bit more on say Proteus would buy me over Diptrace. I know there have been various (useful) threads on pcb layout tools in the semi-professional range (i.e.
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