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mechanical layer in eagle layout

autodeskguest
autodeskguest over 13 years ago

Hi all,

 

Great job for all the help you've been providing thus far. I work with a lot

of mechanical engineers, often my board layout files have no dimensions on

them. How do I display dimensions, distances with eagle layout and generate

a file that the ME guys can use to make an enclosure or design around the

board.

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

regards,

 

vadryn

 

 

 

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  • autodeskguest
    autodeskguest over 13 years ago

    vadryn P schrieb:

     

    Great job for all the help you've been providing thus far. I work with a lot

    of mechanical engineers, often my board layout files have no dimensions on

    them. How do I display dimensions, distances with eagle layout and generate

    a file that the ME guys can use to make an enclosure or design around the

    board.

     

    There are no automatic metrics with EAGLE.

     

    I use the "measures" layer (47) to draw guidelines and sizes in it - all

    manually. However, since these are normally very few I can live with that.

     

    For your "ME guys" you might also do an export to DXF - normally they

    are lucky with that. Just export all mechanically relevant layers

    (dimension, milling, eventually measures).

     

    Tilmann

     

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    autodeskguest over 13 years ago

    vadryn P wrote:

    Hi all,

     

    Great job for all the help you've been providing thus far. I work with a lot

    of mechanical engineers, often my board layout files have no dimensions on

    them. How do I display dimensions, distances with eagle layout and generate

    a file that the ME guys can use to make an enclosure or design around the

    board.

     

    Thanks in advance for your help.

     

    regards,

     

    vadryn

     

     

     

    You may also want to look at the 3rd party product Eagle PCB Power

    Tools.   You can download it from the downloads area but needs a licen$e

      for the measures to work.   I eventually bought and used this package

    for some of my designs.   It took a bit if fiddling to get things to

    work the way I wanted but it definitely does generate dimension lines.

      One of the tools will automatically generate dimension lines "..for

    all visible objects..".   You have to be a little careful which layers

    are turned on when you generate the dimensions or you will get a real

    mess!

     

    Caveats about the tool (from my limited experience)

    1.  The dimension lines don't automatically update if you move them around.

    2.  I could find no way to edit the length of a dimension line manually

    3.  If you change the size or relative position of things the dimensions

    don't automatically move around so you have to clear out the dimension

    layer and then re-run the tool.

     

    Generating a dxf is a good solution (included w/ Eagle already) and

    gives a more complete definition of the mechanicals ... but the mech-e

    has to actually load up the dxf and measure things!

     

    Jim

     

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  • autodeskguest
    autodeskguest over 13 years ago

    there is a ULP "adimv4_0" that can be downloaded that puts dimensions

    around the board. i use it but don't like it much.

     

    a better solution is to export the dimension as dxf and pull the

    dimensions out of it in your mechanical CAD program.

     

    there are also some tools that generate 3D representations of the board

    to use in CAD systems. search the forums for the ongoing discussion of them.

     

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    autodeskguest over 13 years ago

    Thank you all for the input. I tried exporting the brd file as dxf, it gave

    me option for net list and a bmp image file. I apologize for my ignorance

    and I will further consult the manual for further guidance. Up til this

    point, I don't know how to export as dxf, though it seems to be common

    knowledge in this post. I am happy to learn from anyone willing to elaborate

    some simple steps.

     

    sincerely yours,

    vadryn

    "Gary Gofstein" <nospam@use.forum.net> wrote in message

    news:hk7fdo$k0q$2@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    there is a ULP "adimv4_0" that can be downloaded that puts dimensions

    around the board. i use it but don't like it much.

     

    a better solution is to export the dimension as dxf and pull the

    dimensions out of it in your mechanical CAD program.

     

    there are also some tools that generate 3D representations of the board to

    use in CAD systems. search the forums for the ongoing discussion of them.

     

     

     

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    autodeskguest over 13 years ago

    Ok, If I understand from my research, it should be a function of using a

    dxf.ulp file. Is that correct or is there more to it.

     

    thanks

    vp

    "vadryn P" <vadrynpierre@gmail.com> wrote in message

    news:hkbl58$34j$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    Thank you all for the input. I tried exporting the brd file as dxf, it

    gave me option for net list and a bmp image file. I apologize for my

    ignorance and I will further consult the manual for further guidance. Up

    til this point, I don't know how to export as dxf, though it seems to be

    common knowledge in this post. I am happy to learn from anyone willing to

    elaborate some simple steps.

     

    sincerely yours,

    vadryn

    "Gary Gofstein" <nospam@use.forum.net> wrote in message

    news:hk7fdo$k0q$2@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    there is a ULP "adimv4_0" that can be downloaded that puts dimensions

    around the board. i use it but don't like it much.

     

    a better solution is to export the dimension as dxf and pull the

    dimensions out of it in your mechanical CAD program.

     

    there are also some tools that generate 3D representations of the board

    to use in CAD systems. search the forums for the ongoing discussion of

    them.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • autodeskguest
    autodeskguest over 13 years ago

    Yes...use dxf.ulp

     

    vadryn P wrote:

    Ok, If I understand from my research, it should be a function of using a

    dxf.ulp file. Is that correct or is there more to it.

     

    thanks

    vp

    "vadryn P" <vadrynpierre@gmail.com> wrote in message

    news:hkbl58$34j$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    Thank you all for the input. I tried exporting the brd file as dxf, it

    gave me option for net list and a bmp image file. I apologize for my

    ignorance and I will further consult the manual for further guidance. Up

    til this point, I don't know how to export as dxf, though it seems to be

    common knowledge in this post. I am happy to learn from anyone willing to

    elaborate some simple steps.

     

    sincerely yours,

    vadryn

    "Gary Gofstein" <nospam@use.forum.net> wrote in message

    news:hk7fdo$k0q$2@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    there is a ULP "adimv4_0" that can be downloaded that puts dimensions

    around the board. i use it but don't like it much.

     

    a better solution is to export the dimension as dxf and pull the

    dimensions out of it in your mechanical CAD program.

     

    there are also some tools that generate 3D representations of the board

    to use in CAD systems. search the forums for the ongoing discussion of

    them.

     

     

     

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