Hi everyone,
I am in the process of evaluating which tool might be more suitable for the design of relatively simple boards.
From the alternatives that I found, diptrace and eagle seem to be the top contenders. These are clearly tools not intended for complex jobs, although they can get the thing done for a fraction of the cost of more capable tools.
I think eagle has a cumbersome way of defining the coverage of vias with soldermask.
The management of component libraries would be better if eagle had an automated way of updating a landpattern accross all libraries that make use of it.