Some advantages of DipTrace over EAGLE.

Sl.

No. DipTrace

EAGLE

1. More intuitive. Less intuitive.

2. Easy to use. Difficult to use.

3. Consume less time to draw a circuit because of its

simplicity.

Takes more time to draw a circuit because of its

complexity.

4. Easy to make and manage libraries. A bit hard to make and manage libraries.

5. 3D view is less realistic. 3D view is more realistic.

6. More immediate/faster. Less immediate/slower.

7. Easy to find components from the libraries.

//Just 3-4 characters required to search for a

component.

Difficult to find components from the libraries.

//Exact name required to search for a component.

8. The sheet (screen) can be moved by holding down

the right mouse button.

It’s difficult to move the sheet (screen).

9. Any symbol (component) can be moved by

holding down the left mouse button.

To move a symbol (component), select

componentright clickmove.

10. Libraries appear in the upper side of the

schematic editor.

To view the libraries, go to editadd.

11. If there is a need to delete/remove few

components, then the components can be selected

together by holding down the left mouse button

and then perform the activity by pressing the

delete key or right clickdelete.

It is not possible to remove/delete two or more

components simultaneously but one by one we can

remove. For that, select componentright

clickdelete.

12. No in-built simulator. In-built LT spice simulator.

13. In 2011, Parallax, USA, switched from EAGLE to DipTrace for developing its PCBs.

14. DipTrace’s track record is much smoother and faster than EAGLE’s. Look at the progression of the features in the past 5 years, DipTrace has made major leaps and bonds, where EAGLE has simply maintained the steady improvements.

Rezaul Islam, India