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Did you consider using KiCAD or another open EDA tool instead of Eagle?

Have to admit I never heard of those two tools! Given I use PCBWay for cheap production of boards I can only create boards that are 100m x 100m at a max anyway. So the Eagle restriction of free use up to 100m x 80m is not bad.

This is awesome. One tiny request: please change the board dimensions text on the page to "100mm x 80mm", or "100x80 mm" or something.

I had to stop and think about this for a second or two, since I wondered what on Earth you were doing building 100-meter boards. Units matter, and the symbol for "millimeters" is "mm". Thanks.

Mods: also it would be awesome to have "RISC-V" in the title.

It's possible to work around the restriction easily. This tool (https://github.com/p12tic/eagle-brd-merge) can move a single Eagle board around, so whenever you want to move a component outside the allowed window you simply move the board. You can panelize the boards without any board size restriction using that tool too.

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