EDWin import

Greg wrote:

Someone's asked me to etch a board using an EDWin design,

would it be possible to import this in eagle somehow? (just the pcb layout)

Or is it gerber's thats the deal here? (basically all I need is being able to

plot the layout to the printer using drafting film)

I've found gerbers to be overly complicated for this simple task

and there's always been something to mess it up....

//Greg

 

 

I you are going to etch a board at home, then the board needs to be

printed 1:1 using a laser printer.  This works well for the

press-and-peel or iron-on methods.  A Gerber is needed if you want a PCB

fabricator (PCB house) to make a board.  Some PCB fabs offer a low-cost

service for a double sided plated through board with no solder mask and

no silk-screen.

Sorry, I don't know about EDWin, and don't want to know.

-Dave Pollum

Someone's asked me to etch a board using an EDWin design,

would it be possible to import this in eagle somehow? (just the pcb layout)

Or is it gerber's thats the deal here? (basically all I need is being able to

plot the layout to the printer using drafting film)

I've found gerbers to be overly complicated for this simple task

and there's always been something to mess it up....

//Greg

I you are going to etch a board at home, then the board needs to be printed 1:1 using a laser printer.  This works well for the

press-and-peel or iron-on methods.  A Gerber is needed if you want a PCB fabricator (PCB house) to make a board.  Some PCB fabs

offer a low-cost service for a double sided plated through board with no solder mask and no silk-screen.

 

Sorry, I don't know about EDWin, and don't want to know.

 

-Dave Pollum

Thanks but I already know this

//Greg

Greg wrote:

Someone's asked me to etch a board using an EDWin design,

would it be possible to import this in eagle somehow? (just the pcb layout)

Or is it gerber's thats the deal here? (basically all I need is being able to

plot the layout to the printer using drafting film)

I've found gerbers to be overly complicated for this simple task

and there's always been something to mess it up....

//Greg

 

 

Can you not get the edwin user to either

1. print out the appropriate layers and give you the acetate/tracing paper.

2. get them to print to pdf as 1:1 of the required layers, verify it and

then give you the pdfs

cheers

David

On 2/7/08 3:11 PM, in article fofol6$g5q$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de, "Greg"

<ash_4@gravitywell.org> wrote:

Someone's asked me to etch a board using an EDWin design,

would it be possible to import this in eagle somehow? (just the pcb layout)

Or is it gerber's thats the deal here? (basically all I need is being able to

plot the layout to the printer using drafting film)

I've found gerbers to be overly complicated for this simple task

and there's always been something to mess it up....

As has already been mentioned, you could print to PDF as 1:1.  But if they

have gerbers then why not just use a gerber viewer to load them and then

print them 1:1 on a laser printer.  That is what I would try to do first.

Gerber is intended to keep dimension information so it can be trusted to do

that.  PDF is for display purposes, I'm not sure I'd trust it nearly as

much.

Cheers,

James.

--

James Morrison

www.eagletoolkit.com

Long-time EAGLE User and EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit Author

I've only had problems displaying gerber files I'm afraid....

Not saying it wring woith the gerbers, just my lack of understabnding

"James Morrison" <spam2@stratforddigital.ca> wrote in message news:C3DA731B.108D2%spam2@stratforddigital.ca...

On 2/7/08 3:11 PM, in article fofol6$g5q$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de, "Greg"

<ash_4@gravitywell.org> wrote:

 

Someone's asked me to etch a board using an EDWin design,

would it be possible to import this in eagle somehow? (just the pcb layout)

Or is it gerber's thats the deal here? (basically all I need is being able to

plot the layout to the printer using drafting film)

I've found gerbers to be overly complicated for this simple task

and there's always been something to mess it up....

 

As has already been mentioned, you could print to PDF as 1:1.  But if they

have gerbers then why not just use a gerber viewer to load them and then

print them 1:1 on a laser printer.  That is what I would try to do first.

Gerber is intended to keep dimension information so it can be trusted to do

that.  PDF is for display purposes, I'm not sure I'd trust it nearly as

much.

 

Cheers,

 

James.

 

--

James Morrison

www.eagletoolkit.com

Long-time EAGLE User and EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit Author