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  • Hi im helping a university lecturer to ask few question here.

     

    she got a PCB Milling Machine from a taiwan company, but she cannot get the correct gerber file to drill the pcb.is it eagle able to do that?

     

    she current using free version, but she claim that she unable to generate the gerber file from the trial version., is it full version will unlock this feature?

     

    do you have any sample gerber file that i can give to her to do a test?

     

    regard

    isaac

  • in reply to Former Member

    On 11/7/2013 10:31 AM, Isaac Tan wrote:

    Hi im helping a university lecturer to ask few question here.

     

    she got a PCB Milling Machine from a taiwan company, but she cannot get

    the correct gerber file to drill the pcb.is it eagle able to do that?

     

    she current using free version, but she claim that she unable to

    generate the gerber file from the trial version., is it full version

    will unlock this feature?

     

    Hi Isaac,

     

    The free version of EAGLE can generate gerbers, so it's likely that she

    is either generating the gerber files incorrectly or that the machine

    expects some other format.Chp 9 of the EAGLE manual details making gerbers.

     

    In a nutshell here's the procedure:

    1. Open the board layout

    2. Click on the CAM processor

    3. File -> Open -> Job within the CAM processor window

    4. Select the appropriate CAM job (gerb274x.cam is for 2 layers

    components on top only, gerb274x-4layer.cam is for 4 layers components

    on both sides).

    5. Click Process Job

    6. For drill file, repeat step 3.

    7. Select Excellon.cam

    8. Repeat step 5

     

    I would recommend that you look carefully at the type of files the

    machine accepts and then go from there. I don't have much experience

    with Milling machines myself, but I know there are many users that make

    PCBs in this manner. Perhaps one of them will chime in.

     

    Best Regards,

    Jorge Garcia

     

     

  • in reply to autodeskguest

    Jorge Garcia wrote:

    (...] but I know there are many users that make

    PCBs in this manner. Perhaps one of them will chime in.

     

    possibly not with this generic "Have a question about CadSoft EAGLE?

    Ask our Expert" subject.

     

    At least in my newsreader they all end up in one gigantic thread.

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    Lorenz

     

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