Recommended Practice for handling drill data?

James Littlefield wrote:

Using Eagle 5.2.0 Professional and recently managed to create a

situation where the symbols shown in the drill layer were inconsistent

with the same symbols shown in the drill legend.   After experimenting a

bit with Options->Set->Drill->Set and then editing the drill order

manually,  I was eventually able to get things back in sync.

 

It does appear however that the drill table extracted from a board does

not (always) list the drills in the same order as for drillegend.ulp,

drill-legend.ulp, and drillcfg.ulp.    Is there a recommended sequence

of steps for getting consistent results among all these ulps?

 

Thanks

Jim

I bounce back and forth between projects all the time, and this is always an

issue when I do that. Maybe there's an easier way, but I haven't found it.

I just have it as an item on my fabsteps checklist to always check

Options->Set->Drill after I run drilegend.ulp, and manually set the drill

order to match the table generated by the ULP before printing a fab

drawing. If there's a better approach, I'd love to hear about it too.

There is an ulp "drillegend" by A. Zaffran/C. Bohrer from 30.07.08

(download -> ulp) which works automatically & places a drill-table on layer

144. No need to to run the set drill command.  Works fine with V4.x & V5.x

r

Bob Johnson wrote:

James Littlefield wrote:

 

Using Eagle 5.2.0 Professional and recently managed to create a

situation where the symbols shown in the drill layer were inconsistent

with the same symbols shown in the drill legend.   After experimenting a

bit with Options->Set->Drill->Set and then editing the drill order

manually,  I was eventually able to get things back in sync.

 

It does appear however that the drill table extracted from a board does

not (always) list the drills in the same order as for drillegend.ulp,

drill-legend.ulp, and drillcfg.ulp.    Is there a recommended sequence

of steps for getting consistent results among all these ulps?

 

Thanks

Jim

 

I bounce back and forth between projects all the time, and this is always an

issue when I do that. Maybe there's an easier way, but I haven't found it.

I just have it as an item on my fabsteps checklist to always check

Options->Set->Drill after I run drilegend.ulp, and manually set the drill

order to match the table generated by the ULP before printing a fab

drawing. If there's a better approach, I'd love to hear about it too.

 

 

Ok...thanks for the info....thought I was missing something important.

   I guess until know I have been fortunate that things happened to

workout  OK with manual intervention!

Jim

Ing. J.M. Rafetseder wrote:

There is an ulp "drillegend" by A. Zaffran/C. Bohrer from 30.07.08

(download -> ulp) which works automatically & places a drill-table on

layer 144. No need to to run the set drill command.  Works fine with

V4.x & V5.x

r

I understand/use this ulp.   The issue is that the actual drill symbols

in layer 144 don't always map correctly.    As noted in my original post

(and Bob Johnson's follow up) it appears that the ulp does not assign

symbols and drill sizes in the same order as Options->drills->set-Drills

so you can wind up w/ inconsistent data.

jiml

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As noted, working on dozens of different boards with different drill sets,

the script-generated table does not always match the symbols; because the

options-drill-set command does not properly extract drill diameters in

increasing order.

Is there ANY way to allow a .ULP to modify the options-set-drill table?

thanks,

..dane

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Ing. J.M. Rafetseder wrote:

There is an ulp "drillegend" by A. Zaffran/C. Bohrer from 30.07.08

(download -> ulp) which works automatically & places a drill-table on

layer 144. No need to to run the set drill command.  Works fine with V4.x

& V5.x

r

I understand/use this ulp.   The issue is that the actual drill symbols in

layer 144 don't always map correctly.    As noted in my original post (and

Bob Johnson's follow up) it appears that the ulp does not assign symbols

and drill sizes in the same order as Options->drills->set-Drills so you

can wind up w/ inconsistent data.

 

jiml