Fusion Eagle, saving files local - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Frans dB
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 09, 2021, 11:31:39 pm
content: Hello all,A question from a possible user of Fusion Eagle,I’m using an old PCB design program: Multisim/ UltiBoard. Du to a leak of 3D functionality as well in presentation as in co-operating with mechanical hardware designers my attention was focused at Fusion Eagle Premium.My question is: how do I store the design files local at my NAS instead in the cloud. How is this done with the 3D models, connected at the by me designed components?Hopefully somebody is able to help me out.Gr., F.dB

author: beanflying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2021, 02:11:08 am
content: While most of my Fusion 360 use is non Eagle. The default is to cloud save always. While not my preference by any means generally the Cloud sync has worked well over the last few years for me.Several options then exist such as the export functionality or you also the ability to locally Cache the files as per below. The obvious downside to this is unless you repeat this often it won't be the most recent iteration of your design.

author: twospoons
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 13, 2021, 05:44:10 am
content: Having been forced to use Eagle /Fusion360 for my current contract, and you say "possible user of Eagle/Fusion", I'd say "RUN AWAY!"Every time I want to do something on Eagle I feel like I'm wrestling with it to get it to do what I want. It has a number of quirks that just slow everything down.Also 3d support in Eagle isn't good - if you want a 3d view you have to export the files to fusion first - you can't just flick between 2d-3d views.Go have a look a Kicad - its getting pretty mature these days. It handles 3d, has no imposed limitations, and its open source and free. I'm assuming Altium and Pads are out of your price range?

author: Doctorandus_P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 27, 2021, 10:39:48 pm
content: I'm also an ex- Ultiboard user and when i finally completely switched to Linux I was in need of another EDA suite. That was 5+ years ago, and back then I evaluated several of those programs.The first schematic I tried to make with Eagle had a 0.2 Ohm shunt resistor, and it was apparently not possible (or easy) to put such an resistor on your schematic. You had to select a value from a drop-down list, and if it's not in that list you're out of luck.I also evaluated KiCad and I quite liked it. It had some pretty rough edges but it came with an "Getting started in KiCad" guide that was wonderful back then (now it's seriously dated) With that guide I made my first PCB in the first afternoon I Installed KiCad. Another very essential point for me are good editors for schematic symbols and footprints, and both of them work very well in KiCad. When I just started with KiCad there were some serious bugs, especially in the library management, but those have been ironed out long ago.KiCad also has 3D view, which I first considered bloatware, but it really is useful in pre-viewing the PCB. For example silk screen text under angled 0.1" male headers. For a showcase of KiCad's 3D viewer (and all other aspects of KiCad), have a look at:https://kicad.org/made-with-kicad/I've also seen renders of PCB's made with KiCad in Blender, and those look astonishingly beautiful.KiCad can also export .step files which can be viewed, (and used for test fitting enclosures etc) in any decent CAD program.Disclosure:I''m a big proponent of Open Source software and I've donated more to Open Source projects then I've paid for commercial programs. On top of that I have an extremely big dislike for all the cloud stuff that hijack your data.