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'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$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de, "Greg"
<ash_4@gravitywell.org> wrote:
Someone's asked me to etch a board using an EDWin design,
would it be possible to import this in eagle somehow? (just the pcb layout)
Or is it gerber's thats the deal here? (basically all I need is being able to
plot the layout to the printer using drafting film)
I've found gerbers to be overly complicated for this simple task
and there's always been something to mess it up....
As has already been mentioned, you could print to PDF as 1:1. But if they
have gerbers then why not just use a gerber viewer to load them and then
print them 1:1 on a laser printer. That is what I would try to do first.
Gerber is intended to keep dimension information so it can be trusted to do
that. PDF is for display purposes, I'm not sure I'd trust it nearly as
much.
Cheers,
James.
--
James Morrison
www.eagletoolkit.com
Long-time EAGLE User and EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit Author
I've only had problems displaying gerber files I'm afraid....
Not saying it wring woith the gerbers, just my lack of understabnding
"James Morrison" <spam2@stratforddigital.ca> wrote in message news:C3DA731B.108D2%spam2@stratforddigital.ca...
On 2/7/08 3:11 PM, in article fofol6$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
