Eagle PCB design question

[JimRayden]

After doing all that work in ExpressPCB, just to find that there is no way to extract a Gerber file from that program, I changed to Eagle but its user interface leaves to be desired and I'm having utmost troubledrawing the right shaped PCB board. The split/move tools along with the weird grid-snapping and a total absence of a ruler aren't really good for precision work.

Maybe there is some tool I'm missing, could anyone help?

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Jimbo

[Skreddy]

The split tool is certainly not the most intuitive thing I've used.  And I would like a ruler too.  So what I do is just watch the toobar closely to see where my cursor is pointing for precise measurements.  And you can always set up the grid to be finer if you don't like where it's snapping.  Other than that, my main complaint is that creating new library components is a bit like voodoo, and I'd love to see a bit more documentation about things like how components get to be automatically-numbered names in stock components, but user-made ones tend to get garbage or else nothing.  And same thing with making a new potentiometer component, where my terminals get P$1 P$2 P$3 names that I don't even want to see displayed on my board but can't turn off...