I use OnShape, ommercial which is free for non-commercial use and the files are accessible to all other users.? To make them private is $1.400/year.? I don't care of my projects are public. It runs in the cloud and I've been using it for five years IIRC.? Inthat time there has only beeon one outage on their end which was about an hour on a Sunday afternoon.? There are also outages at my end.? we have cable internet and a Verizon jetpack and I'ver had to switch when the cable gets bad.? I can see more than 40 systems on wifi, some of which are stronger than my usually -40db signal strength.? we're going overseas for a month and I'll get into this when we get home.
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I doubt that autodesk will let us have the last Eagle.? They will see it as loss of sales.? too bad.
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I have a 1993 incarnation of Pro/Engineer (Release 12) which runs on a 1993 Sparcstaion 10 which still works.? It can generate STL files as well as produce 3 axis g-code which works well for my projects.? Yes it's old, but it also has printed manuals.
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But withal, I have a subscription to Creo with the machining add-on (3 axis) .? It costs, but it's worth it, mostly because the latest import fiunction can deal with solid modeling formats that didn;t exist in 1993.
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Yes, it's hobby but it's woth it to me.
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And I did use auto-routing in Eagle. It never produced a final layout, but usually only took a little twicthing - all logic circuits for me so no rf issues.
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I do wonder if AutoDesk can be convinced to support the pour funcion if that's all we need to continue using wonderful pcbgcode.
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john ferguson, St Petersburg, fl
