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Help with Creating Board

e14 Contributor

I've finalized my schematic for my project but I'm having trouble

converting this to a board - a lot of the air wires (especially around the

voltage regulators, where I'm starting with laying them on my board) don't

make sense to me. As this is my first Eagle CadSoft project, I'm a bit at a

loss of how to really get going (although I've watched some tutorials on

YouTube, they seem to simple compared to my schematic).

 

Any tips/tricks/tutorials people can point me to? Alternatively, is there

anyone in the Toronto area who could help me? I would try to attach my

schematic but the .sch file and a .pdf are both over the 50kb limit.

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  • That box only seems to affect the schematic view, not the board. If I click

    black it does change the schematic view, but not the board view. Strangely,

    on my laptop when I did this and then reset it to white the board changed

    to black. Don't know if it will stay that way ...

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  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    On 09/14/2012 07:56 PM, Ross Waddell wrote:

    That box only seems to affect the schematic view, not the board. If I click

    black it does change the schematic view, but not the board view. Strangely,

    on my laptop when I did this and then reset it to white the board changed

    to black. Don't know if it will stay that way ...

    Ross,

     

    From either the schematic or the board editors, try: Options->User Interface

    The pane titled "Layout" should have the Background set to Black.

    The pane titled "Schematic" should have the Background set to White.

     

    These settings are stored in $/.eaglerc (on unix/linux systems) as Brd.Palette and Sch.Palette.  A value of 0 is a black background, while a value of 1 is a white background.  Because of where these values are stored, they are persistent across all projects, but are specific to a user or workstation. The $/.eaglerc file is a text file that can be edited with your

    favorite plain text editor (vim, emacs, notepad, etc.)

     

    If these values are getting changed unexpectedly, then this file is

    somehow getting changed, perhaps by someone logged under the same user

    ID that you use, or perhaps by a tool that synchronizes your $HOME

    directory across multiple machines.  (Directory synchronization

    presented a licensing problem to a MAC user not long ago.)

     

    HTH,

        - Chuck

     

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  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    On 09/14/2012 07:56 PM, Ross Waddell wrote:

    That box only seems to affect the schematic view, not the board. If I click

    black it does change the schematic view, but not the board view. Strangely,

    on my laptop when I did this and then reset it to white the board changed

    to black. Don't know if it will stay that way ...

    Ross,

     

    From either the schematic or the board editors, try: Options->User Interface

    The pane titled "Layout" should have the Background set to Black.

    The pane titled "Schematic" should have the Background set to White.

     

    These settings are stored in $/.eaglerc (on unix/linux systems) as Brd.Palette and Sch.Palette.  A value of 0 is a black background, while a value of 1 is a white background.  Because of where these values are stored, they are persistent across all projects, but are specific to a user or workstation. The $/.eaglerc file is a text file that can be edited with your

    favorite plain text editor (vim, emacs, notepad, etc.)

     

    If these values are getting changed unexpectedly, then this file is

    somehow getting changed, perhaps by someone logged under the same user

    ID that you use, or perhaps by a tool that synchronizes your $HOME

    directory across multiple machines.  (Directory synchronization

    presented a licensing problem to a MAC user not long ago.)

     

    HTH,

        - Chuck

     

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