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Board outline

autodeskguest

Hello!

 

I'm a n00b at Eagle, and I'm still working on one of my first boards.

Anyway, I'm trying to render a board to PovRay, but it needs a board

outline.  I didn't create it in the schematic, so it doesn't already

have one.  How do I add it?

 

  • Etharooni wrote:

    Hello!

     

    I'm a n00b at Eagle, and I'm still working on one of my first boards.

    Anyway, I'm trying to render a board to PovRay, but it needs a board

    outline.  I didn't create it in the schematic, so it doesn't already

    have one.  How do I add it?

     

    You create it in the board editor, not the schematic.

    Just draw it on layer 20 (dimension) with the "wire" tool.

    John G.

     

  • Thanks!!!  I knew it would be something simple like that.

     

    John Giddy wrote:

    Etharooni wrote:

    Hello!

     

    I'm a n00b at Eagle, and I'm still working on one of my first boards.

    Anyway, I'm trying to render a board to PovRay, but it needs a board

    outline.  I didn't create it in the schematic, so it doesn't already

    have one.  How do I add it?

     

    You create it in the board editor, not the schematic.

    Just draw it on layer 20 (dimension) with the "wire" tool.

    John G.

     

  • On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:34:28 +1100, John Giddy <jgiddy@bigpond.net.au>

    wrote:

     

    Etharooni wrote:

    Hello!

     

    I'm a n00b at Eagle, and I'm still working on one of my first boards.

    Anyway, I'm trying to render a board to PovRay, but it needs a board

    outline.  I didn't create it in the schematic, so it doesn't already

    have one.  How do I add it?

     

    You create it in the board editor, not the schematic.

    Just draw it on layer 20 (dimension) with the "wire" tool.

     

    I see that layer 20 info gets written to the top side silkscreen

    gerbers in the CAM processor.  However, what do you do if you are

    making a "bare-bones PCB" board using Advanced Circuits in Colorado?

    Such a board does not have a silkscreen layer.  It takes only a top

    and bottom solder layer and the drill file, of course.  In that case I

    often draw an outline using top and bottom copper wires.  But even

    then Advanced Circuits does not always trim the board where I want it,

    even when I tell them explicitly in the instructions.  Maybe I should

    just send them the Eagle file instead of the gerbers and let them sort

    it out.

     

    Robert Scott

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    Ypsilanti, Michigan