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How do I change a board outline shape/size in Eagle Cad Light?

japper

I am using the latest version of Eaglecad light (6.4.0) and I am attempting to make a shield for the Olimexino board.

 

I have taken an existing schematic and PCB layout  of the Olimexino board in order to get the correct spacing

of the pins that I want this pcb to plug into on the Olimexino PCB.

 

Wasn't sure how to import the pins for the spacing/locations so I saved the Olimexino schematioc and board

as a different file name and added my schematic to theOlimexino schematic.

 

Then I removed the Olimexino components (except the pins that i want to use) from the schematic and added my components.

 

I open the board file and the spacing looks correct for the pins that I want and then I had to remove all of the components

that I did not want from the original Olimexino board layout.

 

My ratslist is shown on the board screen but  I would like to change the dimensions of the PCB in the layout section of Eaglecad

to make more room for my circuits.

 

I made the board dimensions larger in the Eagle board layout section manually but then when I try to move a component onto the

newly addded area I get a message that states that the light version of eagle can't perform the requested action. Some objects extend

outside the allowed board areas.

 

How can I change the size of this PCB without loosing the spacing/location of the pins?

 

Thanks

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  • Hi

     

    Great to see you took time to describe your problem using many words.

     

    Your approach was sound enough but could have been easier.

    If you have the board and schematic open at the same time, as you remove

    the unwanted Olimexino parts from the schematic they are removed from the

    board at the same time.

     

    Eagle light has a board size restriction of 100mm x 80 mm. If you attempt

    to place a part origin or part pad outside of that area you get the error

    you received. You can have other lines outside that area.

     

    Knowing what you wanted to do, I would do the following for that Olimexino

    board, at the start.

    1. Move all of it further into the permitted area

    Enter into the command line

    Group all;

    move (>0 0)(10 10);

    2. Manually MOVE that jumper table down below the Y=0 axis with a GROUP

    then MOVE with CTL key depressed and right mouse.

     

    3. Draw an outline that shows you the 100*80mm restriction.

    grid mm;

    layer tDoc;

    wire (0 0)(100 0)(100 80)(0 80)(0 0);

     

    4. Now you can easily group and move the board to where you want it within

    the limitations of the light version.

     

    To answer your question another way, you could group singly (See HELP

    GROUP) each of the pin headers and move them as a group. They will retain

    their relation ship to each other

     

    HTH

    Warren

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • in reply to autodeskguest

    Warren-

     

    I had to remove a few things on my PCB layout to fit within the boundries but the 100 x 80 was more than large enough space.

     

    Thank you very much for your help!

    Jeff p

  • in reply to japper

    A couple more questions...

     

    1. I noticed that the objects that  iadded do not line up with teh grid.

    How do I change the resolution of the grid or snap these items to the

    grid in EagleCad light 6.4?

     

    2. I have some grouped items on my borad layout that I would like to

    ungroup and delete certain items.

    How do I do this in EagleCad light 6.4?

     

    thanks again

     

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  • in reply to japper

    Another question...

     

    I am done with my schematics and have run the CAM processor.

     

    Afterwards, I decided to view my gerber files on a viewer before sending

    these out to the fab house but

    I noticed that there is not board outline in the gerber viewer.

     

    When  I did the wire (0 0)(100 0)(100 80)(0 80)(0 0); to find how much

    room that I had,

    I then moved this so it was smaller and deleted the board outline that

    was smaller.

     

    Looking at my PCB in Eagle, the brd file looks like this:

     

    and looking at the gerbers in a viewer, they look like this:

     

     

     

    What am I missing and how do I create a board outline that is set to the

    values of the wire that  I created so that I have a board outline on my

    PCB?

     

    thanks

     

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  • in reply to japper

    Another question...

     

    I am done with my schematics and have run the CAM processor.

     

    Afterwards, I decided to view my gerber files on a viewer before sending

    these out to the fab house but

    I noticed that there is not board outline in the gerber viewer.

     

    When  I did the wire (0 0)(100 0)(100 80)(0 80)(0 0); to find how much

    room that I had,

    I then moved this so it was smaller and deleted the board outline that

    was smaller.

     

    Looking at my PCB in Eagle, the brd file looks like this:

     

    and looking at the gerbers in a viewer, they look like this:

     

     

     

    What am I missing and how do I create a board outline that is set to the

    values of the wire that  I created so that I have a board outline on my

    PCB?

     

    thanks

     

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