Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE

Re:Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor ... by gaze on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @06:47AM (#36323943)

Push and shove isn’t great, the schematic editor doesn’t sensibly move wires around when you drag components, you can’t query designs with SQLish syntax to make bulk changes, there’s no room functionality, no via stitching and guarding, no multi-channel… it’s good but not there yet.

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Re:Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor ... by brusselssprouts on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:35AM (#36325697)

Kicad 7 has orthogonal wire drag in the schematic now.

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Re:Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor ... by gaze on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:50AM (#36327779)

Ah nice! That’s good to hear. I have no doubt that the things I listed will get implemented eventually. Altium should indeed be scared.

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Re:Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor ... by adql on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:49AM (#36325900)

Isn't scripting API de-facto way to do bulk stuff for KiCAD.

But yeah saying it is as advanced as Altium is a stretch.

"Good enough for all but the most advanced high-speed stuff" is probably better description.

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Re:Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor ... by gaze on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:48AM (#36327747)

Good enough for most anything as long as you’re willing to really grit your way through it for the more complicated stuff — some of which is high speed but also including multichannel and big bga fan-out and other stuff.

Also — the common open source refrain “there’s a scripting interface” is just another way of saying “the feature isn’t implemented, but you can implement it yourself.” It’s not terribly helpful.

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