Hola,

Altium ha sacado una herramienta (gratuita) para diseño de PCBs que compite directamente con Eagle: Circuit Maker ( http://circuitmaker.com " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ), por ahora están en Beta cerrada, pero pinta bastante bien ( aquí unas capturas de pantalla: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/altium/free-altium-is-coming/375/ " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; )

Y algunos de los primeros comentarios:
Sorry for the typos... I am posting on my phone while in the passenger seat coming back from MakerFaire.

I got a full demo

1.). A lot is in flux but the ability to grow into more layers and board area look great. You can pay to upgrade individual pieces. more board or more layers or both. pricing was not finalized but the 4 layer option was 29 usd for a year in the demo. The goal looked like to always be better/more flexible than competing products. It wouldn't surprise me if Eagle needs to make some adjustments.

2.) The free size is 100x100mm. calculated as true area. So a 10 x 1000mm would fit

3.). Basic push shove was enabled. Multiroute was enabled

4.). Files are cached so you can work locally.

5.). Library.... real supplier links must be used. No scrappy parts. Your parts that must have real manufacturing, supplier data. we discussed parts that are mechanical, etc. They are considering how to do this while ensuring good quality parts. No more generic '555s'. Published parts will have backend data.
I did test with an obscure mechanical part. (surface mount standoff) Octopart found it! Octopart is the primary search too for getting data

6.). Quite impressed with the commenting/collaboration tools. I told them I want that in the pro version

7.). Has the new layer stack manager but no rigid flex.

8.). Schematic and library editing is exactly as what you would expect

9.) PCB is very usable. IE way ahead of eagle but not quite all the features of of the pro

10.). Global editing tools are enabled

All in all, with some more adjustments, this looks to be a great package. I saw a very receptive crowd at MakerFaire and there is nothing in the way of this being a useful tool for open/collaborative hardware. Unless you are a curmudgeon who just wants to find a reason to not like the software, it will be a nice addition to the market. I got the feeling that they were listening to get it right while still trying protect their primary product.
I plan on getting my community designs converted. Right now there is not a path from Altium to Circuitmaker but I got the feeling it is not that difficult to make it happen. 🙂

¿Qué os parece?

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Ranganok Schahzaman