I'm still using Eagle CAD 7.7
I've resisted switching over to KiCAD because of the arcane file format.
Yes, the XML in Eagle is verbose, but at least clear.
I've always found using the enormous libraries annoying.
I usually use my own hand-picked/cleaned-up library.
Recently I knocked together a schematic of a dozen part taken directly from the stock libraries.
I was amazed to see that the schematic file was 0.5 Meg in size.
I'm used to CAD programs with a purge command, but it doesn't seem like Eagle has one.
Or did I miss it?
So I wrote a purger for Eagle.
One of the things that I then noticed is that libraries like resistor.lbr have enormous (15K) description fields of gooble-dee-gook HTML.
So now my schematic of a dozen parts is down to 40K, a reduction of 93%
I guess that in the 21st century we don't worry about file sizes.
