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EAGLE Layout Editor is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs). The name EAGLE is an acronym, which stands for Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor. This is a commercial software and the freeware versione, EAGLE Light, has these limitations: 1 schematic sheet, 2 signal layers, 100x80mm routing area but, apart these three limitiations, the EAGLE Light Edition can do anything the Professional Edition can do. Therefore there is no need for converting netlists between schematics and layouts. You can even load, view and print drawings that exceed these limits! The program consists of three main modules;

which are embedded in a single user interface. If you try it (freeware version), click here. Note: EAGLE Layout Editor can generate text files with the help of a User Language Program (ULP). This text file needs to contain the SDL commands to make the layouts glow in realistic 3-dimensional brilliance. Additionally EAGLE does not know anything about measurements in the 3rd dimension. So it was necessary to generate a library which contains all sorts of models to be used with POVRay. So, if you want good-looking pictures of your latest design, then you should probably have a look at a little tool designed to work on Eagle layouts to generate a 3D ray-traced rendering of your boards. The tool is called Eagle3D and can be found here.