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Greetings

My name is Brian, and I am a new user of Eagle, for right now the free version.

First question, is there any way to stop Eagle from carrying on point to point connections. I am sure at times this is a very useful feature, but I need it to stop after automatically after it connects 2 points. I hope this is possible, as if this is a persistent feature, it will really turn me off to Eagle.

But more importantly, I did a practice design and have a problem.

I am using a XF2H-3415 surface mount connector, .5 mm spacing. I have a bit of a problem with the datasheet, as it doesn't clearly state the measurement units, but since the first page notes a measurement in mm, I'm assuming they are smart enough to carry those units throughout the datasheet.

Let me describe what I did, and perhaps did not do.

I have my board layout done, I have two 12 pin single row headers on each side of the board, and the other connector on the other side. And I see the Ratsnest.

I think the pad color denotes side of board, but I'm not sure how to check or change that.

This is where the confusion starts.

I can't get the autorouter to start, and I come up with 34 DRC errors.

I'm a beginner, probably making a silly mistake, but Eagle also has a much more complicated set of DRC rules than I'm used to.

I have attached an image.

Help is most appreciated.

Thanks

Brian K

BKM Engineering

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AnalogNotes over 12 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

In that case, I hope at least the first 3/4 of my messages were useful to you...

Best of luck, sir!
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e14 Contributor over 12 years ago in reply to AnalogNotes

Leave it.

It was the 1st 3/4 of your message that was insulting.

I will find other resources for help.
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AnalogNotes over 12 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

What part of "Seriously though, what other EDA products have you used, why are they better than EAGLE, and why aren't you using them?" do you consider to be an insult?

I hope you'll take a deep breath and read the part that starts with "LOL" again and see it for the humor that it is. You *do* know what LOL means, right? Wikipedia: LOL
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e14 Contributor over 12 years ago in reply to AnalogNotes

I'm not going to respond to your insults.
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e14 Contributor over 12 years ago in reply to AnalogNotes

I'm going to make this really simple for you.

The next time anybody refers to anything I'm questioning, wanting to do, or thinking you should be allowed to do as catastrophically stupid, they will get an attitude from me.

You don't have to act like you are the defenders of eagle.

Everything about Eagle is not the greatest.
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AnalogNotes over 12 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Brian Mcclung wrote:

You don't have to act like you are the defenders of eagle.

LOL, but this is the EAGLE forum - we *ARE* the defenders of EAGLE!

* AnalogNotes dons his EAGLE cape and stands on the roof, hands on hips, gazing into the distance with his hair and cape billowing behind him in the wind while patriotic music plays...

Everything about Eagle is not the greatest.

In some circles, that comment would be worthy of the title "troll"...

Troll (Internet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seriously though, what other EDA products have you used, why are they better than EAGLE, and why aren't you using them?
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e14 Contributor over 12 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

I want to clarify.

I have been reading the advice given. I have not rejected anything. I'm here to learn how to do things.

And I have tried to thank everybody who has helped me.

None of these 4 things requires me to like Eagle.

And I don't have to justify anything I would like to do.

Now that we have that straightened out, if you don't want to help, don't!!!!
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e14 Contributor over 12 years ago in reply to AnalogNotes

I may be kind of unique, but I would actually prefer a little less thinking for me.
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e14 Contributor over 12 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

I'm going to make this really simple for you.

The next time anybody refers to anything I'm questioning, wanting to do, or thinking you should be allowed to do as catastrophically stupid, they will get an attitude from me.

You don't have to act like you are the defenders of eagle.

Everything about Eagle is not the greatest.
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AnalogNotes over 12 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

Brian Mcclung wrote:

Maybe to aid placement, a quick check of board or edge-part spacing.

I just don't see how it can be used for a quick a-b measurement.

When I want to do a quick measurement, I just use the "mark" command. When you place a mark, you get a display of relative coordinates right next to the cursor location display. Read: MARK command You can use the "assign" command or the options-assign menu to tie the mark command to a particular key that you like. For example:

ASSIGN F12 'mark';

If you want, you can even assign a key to stop marking:

ASSIGN F11 'mark;';

(Notice additional semicolon inside quotes.)

It seems to pick its own points automatically, or at least one of them.

If you read the help on dimension DIMENSION command you'll see that if you click on an object, EAGLE will try to guess what to do...
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