So.is KiCAD, Altium, or Orcad any better. But the user interface seems to be intentionally made to waste as much time as possible - time which costs at least $38 an hour (the rate of an experienced layout engineer). Why do I have to manually place the label for the part (why isn't it already there)? Why don't the pins and package auto-link? Why are you forced to type "use *" at the eagle commandline every time you add a library? Why is there no tool that will let you just search all open libraries everywhere in a big database for your part and download it and give you the ability to place the part? Why not expose all that garbage when you need it, instead of all the time. I get some complex parts might have 52 layers. And don't even get me started on how the most basic footprint has 52 layers in the design. You can't just rightclick if you want to change something - better find the change tool. You can't just click what you want to move - you have to squint your eyes and find the move tool. I noticed this ridiculous amount of duplicate steps.
The reason is that there were some mistakes in my design as a result of using that EDA program, and it ran kind of sluggishly, so I figured I'd switch. Well, I decided to recreate a schematic made in "Easy EDA" in Eagle. And I've used many, many tools on a computer, from the horrid (Xilinx FPGA tools) to pretty decent stuff (PIC C compiler).
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