EasyEDA or similar cloud services. List of forum users.

[r3bers]

There is thread where new users just introduce themselves.
Is there some thread like this, maybe pinned, where users of eevblog forum can post public profile from Web based EDA, to follow each other?

Most difficult thing on EasyEDA is to have good libraries. Because each time I use libraries from repository, usually I have problems with footprints. Maybe if have some network of followers from forum, it will be decent way to find proper libraries from each other's

PS. Not much now https://easyeda.com/r3bers, but will be.

[alan.green@gmail.com]

Most difficult thing on EasyEDA is to have good libraries. Because each time I use libraries from repository, usually I have problems with footprints. Maybe if have some network of followers from forum, it will be decent way to find proper libraries from each other's

I use EasyEDA, and would consider myself a bit of a fan boy. I don't trust other people's footprints without checking first. In fact, I have taken to double checking my own.

That said, the basic footprints (SMD and TH) are generally OK, and I'm getting quick at reading the parts of datasheets component outlines and recommended landing shapes, so there's not enough pain to convince me to change to another tool, yet.

[chevell69]

i used to use easy eda on the browser all the time just in the last two mo i found out easyeda provieds a downloadable software that u can download install and use it with out using the web form. But you still have to log in to it to be able to use auto trace still have not figured how to set autotrace on my computer yet.

[rrinker]

 I've been using EasyEDA for a little while now. One simple project done, my very first self-designed PCB, actually. There were no special components so footprints were not a problem and everything fit as intended. Id did double check but really there were only a couple of resistors, capacitors, a ZIF socket, and an oscillator. Second one is more complicated but the schematic is solid, there are no oddball components that I need to create or adjust a footprint for, it's all down to getting the board laid out in a logical fashion.

[peteb2]

Over 18months ago I produced a couple of boards with EasyEDA including JLCPCB making them. I recall working everything in a browser environment things were quick, interactive and minimal learning curve. I have a fibre100 connection at home and at work (while i spent my lunchbreak on hobby things) the connection is virtually GB. In short zero issues. The finished designs are still working 100% so i went back this week and began a 3rd project. That's when the nightmares began. Things like schematic symbol & the associated footprint with net links to pads i'd drawn, saved and verified not appearing in my library complete having being there a minute earlier. Not being able to access the server at all and forget about about doing a trace auto-route with a warning to try later. I'm wondering if EasyEDA is a victim of its own success and being snowed under? One thing for sure, it's terribly frustrating. Part of "doing electronics" you meet all kinds of issues and in my 40 odd years at it you learned very early never to let yourself get wound up over any sort of issue but this experience of "Working in the Cloud" concerns me.

[rrinker]

 I just recently got back to my old projects and they seem to be working fine. I do use the installed version, not the browser version, of EasyEDA. And if you haven't used it in 18 months, there have been several updates using an old version may give inconsistent results.
 My feeling is, the pure cloud version is there to use in a pinch - same with Microsoft Office. I have the full apps installed on my computer, but just in case I'm not easily able to fire up my computer to look at or modify something, I can access the cloud version. I would never want to use the cloud version as my only version

[tooki]

Another easyeda fan here. I recently laid out about 10 boards, half in easyeda, half in Altium. Can Altium do more? Yes. But its learning curve is steeper. (Easyeda actually helped with that, since many of its features are modeled after Altium.) This experience has left me quite impressed at what easyeda can do, especially in a browser!

I also found it far easier to find footprints and 3D models in easyeda than in Altium.

The only thing kinda missing is an interactive router like Altium and kicad have.

i used to use easy eda on the browser all the time just in the last two mo i found out easyeda provieds a downloadable software that u can download install and use it with out using the web form. But you still have to log in to it to be able to use auto trace still have not figured how to set autotrace on my computer yet.

FWIW, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to install the auto router on my Mac. It’s basically a shell script you execute in a terminal window and leave running in the background.

[b_force]

I have been trying EasyEDA on and off, at first i was pretty skeptical about it. (using all kinds of professional EDAs for the last 15 years)
But it's obvious that they keep improving and I must say that it actually works very well.
Especially the enormous library is really handy to have, which can safe a lot or time making your of footprints.
To bad it's only some kind of cloud/online based kind of thing, which I am not really a fan of.
There are still some other few quirks here and there.

Also I think the KiCad team could learn a lot from this how you actually CAN make a intuitive design that people can pickup very quickly.