More Online EDA Thoughts - Upverter/Circuits.IO

Some little annoyances I came up with as I was drawing out a simple Micro USB breakout board.

Upverter

• A layout measurement tool would help while drawing part footprints
• Can't set default part prefix when creating/editing a part
• The part update notification is great, but could use some ironing

• Footprint rotation is in radians? Seriously?
• No way to edit text in layout
• Can't put text on a copper layer
• Tooltips can really get in your way (a problem when you're zoomed in on a layout)
• Orders allow negative qty all the way up until order submission
• Credit card details are saved without any permission (not okay!)
• What's with the project urls? http://upverter.com/GeorgeHahn/3d6ead6de4b3dbee/MicroUSB-Breakout-Board/

Circuits.IO

• Footprint creation is clunky terrifying (bad enough I didn't even try to finish making my part).
• On the schematic symbol editor (http://www.circuits.io/schematic_symbols/1202/edit), the user as asked to enter a 'coma-separated list' comma.
• Schematic symbol page shows a hex number for the user: #<User:0x00000009b39c60>

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