Entries from Spiff's Electronics Notebook tagged with 'Eagle'
Restricting via placement in Eagle (February 26, 2008)
Vias are a useful tool when laying out a pcb, but if there's a via in the middle of your text, the effect isn't pretty. This is an especially common occurrence when using and auto-router.
There are a few solutions to this, the easiest is not caring. A harder to execute, but similar solution is to integrate the via into your text.
Finally, in eagle, you can use the vRestrict layer to keep via's out of your text.
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Eagle Howto PCB
Posted by spiffed at 8:15 PM | Comments (0)
Eagle Postscript Cam Job (January 31, 2008)
On occasion, I etch a circuit board using the toner transfer method. This, unfortunately, usually takes several steps to go from eagle to gerber plots to printable file to printer. With this in mind, I present the postscript cam job for eagle.
Simply unzip the cam file to your cam directory. When you're ready, open the ps.cam file from Eagle's CAM tool. The result is three nice postscript files for the component side, solder side, and the silkscreen. The component side and silkscreen files are already mirrored, so just print from your post-script capable program of choice. (Hint: ghostview is a free postscript capable viewer.)
Eagle PCB
Posted by spiffed at 4:18 AM | Comments (0)
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