"Olin Lathrop" <eagle@embedinc.com> wrote in message
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eSilviu wrote on Wed, 14 July 2010 02:39
>> do you use "print preview" option in printing dialog?!
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Not really, not from Eagle anyway.
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>> We need such feature for gerber files too.
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So go to the Pentalogix site or one of the others and download a free
gerber viewer.
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>> It's the first feedback when you generate the fabrication files.
>> Maybe CAM processor should display a preview for what will do, just to
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>> confirme us that it's doing what we want CAM to do
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There is no problem to solve here. I have never seen Eagle make a mistake
in writing out gerber files. I have occasionally made mistakes where I
put
something in the wrong layer or wrote the wrong set of layers out to a
gerber file. Those errors are quite rare, so catching them when checking
the gerber files via a independent third party program is no problem. You
fix it, rerun the CAM job, and check again.
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If you're frequently making these kinds of mistakes then you should take a
little time to learn the CAM processor better. Make a few canned CAM jobs
for the things you usually do. For example, I have canned CAM files for
two layer boards and 4 layer boards.
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Another thing that helps me a lot is a checklist for going from a Eagle
board to a board house ZIP file. Yes, this is actually written down. I
refer to it every time I make a board house package. The checklist is
actually in the header comments of the script that helps automate binding
together all the relevant files into a board house ZIP file.
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I will request, only for you, a command line only version of Eagle, with no
GUI at all. Since you don't need visual feedback for your actions, you don't
need the GUI anyway. You could output the board as image, and see-it with
Paint if you need to see the final result
