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Printing multilayered PCB

e14 Contributor

Hello Guys, what are the best practices?

I have two-layered board, and thought that it would be great to print all

the layers into the single PDF using internal PDF printer. However if I do

it (with top layer red and bottom blue), blue conductors appear behind the

red, and are not visible. I was looking to print them with some degree of

opacity, but did not find such capability. What I found is to change

"pattern" (fillstyle) of the conductors, but when scaling pdf up board

becomes looking not so well... or even ugly.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

 

 

 

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  • Jim, thanks. Taking in account that it's not an option to share gerber and

    excellon files, or that customers require paper printout?

     

    "Jim Littlefield" <jameslittlefield@verizon.net> wrote in message

    news:jeuvth$mvl$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    On 1/15/2012 11:35 AM, Eugeny Brychkov wrote:

    >> Olin, thanks.

    >> Silly or not such prinout allows people to clearly see interconnections

    >> between the layers on the single sheet.

    >> Can you explain how professionals do it for their customers?

    >>

    >> "Olin Lathrop"<eagle@embedinc.com>  wrote in message

    >> news:jeum5d$c01$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    >>> Eugeny wrote on Sun, 15 January 2012 08:39

    >>>> 1,5 months no respose... Either I have peculiar request or none knows

    >>>> how to do it?

    >>>

    >>> Probably because it's a rather silly request for most people.  At best

    >>> this

    >>> sounds like a hobbyist thing.  What you want has never come up for me

    >>> and

    >>> I

    >>> don't expect it to.

    >>> --

    >>> Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the

    >>> CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

    >>>

    >>

    >>

    >

    Most of my customers use a gerber viewer (Gcpreview, ViewMate, etc). Some

    simply download/use the free version of Eagle which allows them to view

    (but generally not edit) the layouts in a very flexible way.

     

    Jim

     

     

     

     

     

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Jim, thanks. Taking in account that it's not an option to share gerber and

    excellon files, or that customers require paper printout?

     

    "Jim Littlefield" <jameslittlefield@verizon.net> wrote in message

    news:jeuvth$mvl$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    On 1/15/2012 11:35 AM, Eugeny Brychkov wrote:

    Olin, thanks.

    Silly or not such prinout allows people to clearly see interconnections

    between the layers on the single sheet.

    Can you explain how professionals do it for their customers?

     

    "Olin Lathrop"<eagle@embedinc.com>  wrote in message

    news:jeum5d$c01$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    Eugeny wrote on Sun, 15 January 2012 08:39

    1,5 months no respose... Either I have peculiar request or none knows

    how to do it?

     

    Probably because it's a rather silly request for most people.  At best

    this

    sounds like a hobbyist thing.  What you want has never come up for me

    and

    I

    don't expect it to.

    --

    Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the

    CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

     

     

     

     

    Most of my customers use a gerber viewer (Gcpreview, ViewMate, etc). Some

    simply download/use the free version of Eagle which allows them to view

    (but generally not edit) the layouts in a very flexible way.

     

    Jim

     

     

     

     

     

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  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Jim, thanks. Taking in account that it's not an option to share gerber and

    excellon files, or that customers require paper printout?

     

    "Jim Littlefield" <jameslittlefield@verizon.net> wrote in message

    news:jeuvth$mvl$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    On 1/15/2012 11:35 AM, Eugeny Brychkov wrote:

    Olin, thanks.

    Silly or not such prinout allows people to clearly see interconnections

    between the layers on the single sheet.

    Can you explain how professionals do it for their customers?

     

    "Olin Lathrop"<eagle@embedinc.com>  wrote in message

    news:jeum5d$c01$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    Eugeny wrote on Sun, 15 January 2012 08:39

    1,5 months no respose... Either I have peculiar request or none knows

    how to do it?

     

    Probably because it's a rather silly request for most people.  At best

    this

    sounds like a hobbyist thing.  What you want has never come up for me

    and

    I

    don't expect it to.

    --

    Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the

    CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

     

     

     

     

    Most of my customers use a gerber viewer (Gcpreview, ViewMate, etc). Some

    simply download/use the free version of Eagle which allows them to view

    (but generally not edit) the layouts in a very flexible way.

     

    Jim

     

     

     

     

     

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