mechanical layer in eagle layout

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

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