PCB Layer Color Options

It seems very stange to me that Cadsoft has developed a fantastic program,

with milion lines of code, and yet they don't have time to define 16 colors

that looks nice in alpha blending.

I could do soming about it, but it would probably take a few days to

understand how to select colors that are distinct and blend in a way that

is easy to understand.

Has anybody made a palette that they are willing to share?

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On 10/10/2011 8:45 AM, Gustav wrote:

It seems very stange to me that Cadsoft has developed a fantastic program,

with milion lines of code, and yet they don't have time to define 16 colors

that looks nice in alpha blending.

 

I could do soming about it, but it would probably take a few days to

understand how to select colors that are distinct and blend in a way that

is easy to understand.

 

Has anybody made a palette that they are willing to share?

www.cadsoftusa.com-> Downloads-> Tools and Converters. Newcolors.scr

Should give you an idea, you'll have to tack on the alpha blend on the

front, since in version 4 we didn't have alpha blend the colors were

defined as RGB, for version 5 and on the color format is ARGB.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

If I make a custom palette to put in a script - where can I find where the values are stored?

That way I can distribute the script with the file and people will have to run it to insure that they see my custom colors.

I do agree with the comment above about the palette lacking a lot. I'll be happy to design a better one for CadSoft.

In the meantime, isn't it time that this information be included in a board file, so that it's not an issue. As I see it, it would increase the

file size 64*4bytes (RGBA) plus a little overhead for a header, 300 bytes total? Which is effectively nothing in today's large file sizes.

Then we wouldn't be worrying about a script - we could just put all the information in a template, load the template and create the new design.

If the palette got modded for any reason, it would go with the file.

Am 29.03.2014 20:12, schrieb Paul Badger:

If I make a custom palette to put in a script - where can I find where

the values are stored?

That way I can distribute the script with the file and people will have

to run it to insure that they see my custom colors.

 

I do agree with the comment about the palette above lacking in

useability. I'll be happy to design a better one for CadSoft.

 

In the meantime, isn't it time that this information be included in a

board file, so that it's not an issue. As I see it, it would increase

the

file size 64*4bytes (RGBA) plus a little overhead for a header, 300

bytes total? Which is effectively nothing in today's large file sizes.

 

Then we wouldn't be worrying about a script - we could just put all the

information in a template, load the template and create the new design.

If the palette got modded for any reason, it would go with the file.

 

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Joern Paschedag

Joern,

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm on a Mac and have dug around a bit and not found eaglerc  or Eaglerc. I even dug through the package. Can you give me a hint about where I might find the file? Is it invisible? I did search for dot file too. There was a discussion of using -U to trigger the use of this file, but I couldn't figure out the context. Everyone seemed to be on PC's.

Paul

Joern,

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm on a Mac and have dug around a bit and not found eaglerc  or Eaglerc. I even dug through the package. Can you give me a hint about where I might find the file? Is it invisible? I did search for dot file too. There was a discussion of using -U to trigger the use of this file, but I couldn't figure out the context. Everyone seemed to be on PC's.

Paul

Hi,

the file is named  .eaglerc   and is in your home folder. The dot in the beginning marks it as a hidden file on the Mac system. Try to find it with a Terminal windows, for example with the  ls -la  command.

HTH

Regards,

Richard

Thank Richard,

I found it and found the palette. I can't explain why I didn't find it after specifically searching for invisible files. Mysteries of Apple spotlight I guess.

It should be easy to grab the info I need for a script. It would also be easy to create a load and save palette ULPs but IMO these kind of things belong in the interface. If you haven't guessed, I'd like to add my vote for putting this into the next version of Eagle as well as saving palette's in board files.

My Kudos for the extensive scripting system for Eagle. However it would be nice to see you take some of the best of the ideas your customers have cooked up and put them into menu items. The interface is still very bare bones compared with competitors. And FWIW I'm not using the free version of Eagle so I added my $vote.