This Hack Chat is going down on noon, PST, Friday, December 15th. Our Hack Chats are live community events on the Hackaday.io Hack Chat group messaging. If you’re wondering about how Altium and KiCad are holding up, or have any questions about these PCB design tools, don’t worry: we’re going to have Hack Chats with these engineers in the new year. We’re looking for questions from the community, so if you have a question for Matt or the rest of the Eagle team, put it on the Hack Chat event page. Join the chat to hear about new features in Eagle, how things are holding up for Eagle under new ownership, and how exactly the new subscription model for Eagle is going.
What new features are in the latest edition of Eagle?.
We’ll be asking Matt all about Eagle, with questions including: Our guest for this Hack Chat is Matt Berggren, director of Autodesk Circuits, hardware engineer, and technologist that has been working on bringing electronic design to everyone. Yes, there’s still a free, educational version, but this change to a subscription model caused much consternation in the community when announced.įor this week’s Hack Chat, we’re going to be talking about Eagle, one year in. Where you could pay less than $100 once and hold onto version 6.0 forever, now you’re required to pay $15 every month for your copy of Eagle. Six months into the new age of Eagle, Autodesk announced they would be changing their licensing models to a subscription service.
There were plans for some features that should have been in Eagle two decades ago, and right now Autodesk is rolling out an impressive list of features that include UX improvements, integration with MCAD and Fusion360, and push and shove routing. Way back in June of 2016, Autodesk acquired Cadsoft, and with it EagleCAD, the popular PCB design software.