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Is there a way to export clean polylines in a DXF from Eagle ?

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I have installed Eagle 7.5 now two days ago, I watched like 2 hours of tutorials on youtube so far but I'm failing in exporting my 2 layer PCB to dxf so I can make the CAM part in the program I use daily and I'm familiar with (Cambam), I also have a cnc and I want to mill myself the board.

 

My problem is the the dxf file Eagle exported is a mess (maybe I'm doing something wrong), and I don't know if there is a way to just have a clean look of the PCB as I see it in eagle. I attach a few screenshoots as it will be easier to understand what I want.

 

Messy DXF from Eagle:

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And here is the same file, half cleaned manually by me, it took me about 15 - 20  minutes to clean it up unfortunately

 

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Any help is appreciated, if I only could get a clean DXF like is the lower part of the above image. Also, if I tried to export to dxf before the groundplane (hope I used the correct word for all those cooper red rectangles you see in my image ) , even if the thick USE WIRE WIDTHS was checked I still didn't get the actual trace width in the dxf file, only a small line, like you see with a very dark color, in the center of all traces, in the above image.

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    On 20/12/15 10:55, Ovidiu Sopa wrote:

    I have installed Eagle 7.5 now two days ago, I watched like 2 hours of

    tutorials on youtube so far but I'm failing in exporting my 2 layer PCB

    to dxf so I can make the CAM part in the program I use daily and I'm

    familiar with (Cambam), I also have a cnc and I want to mill myself the

    board.

     

    My problem is the the dxf file Eagle exported is a mess (maybe I'm doing

    something wrong), and I don't know if there is a way to just have a

    clean look of the PCB as I see it in eagle. I attach a few screenshoots

    as it will be easier to understand what I want.

     

    Why do it the hard way? You're expecting to export from Eagle in a

    non-native, closed, undocumented third-party format, so that you can

    import into another program for which that format is non-native. DXF is

    very poorly documented and non-standard.

     

    I see from the CamBam web site that it imports Gerber. Gerber is THE

    accepted universal standard format for PCB data, and Eagle generates it

    very well. Have you tried that route?

     

     

     

  • 0 in reply to autodeskguest

    Well I tried and it exported alot of different files, when I try to import any of the files you see in the image attached I could only see the gcode in cambam, not the actual drawing, and I didn;t want to risk anything to run the gcode on the cnc whitout knowing what it tries to mill.

     

    Now I searched online for more answers and I seen some guys have .gbr files, I didn't had any of those, I tried to rename one .cmp file to .gbr and it imported the drawing, in fact I'm sure it's just because cambam will try to parse only .gbr files and make the drawing from the gcode, for other extension that it didn't know it just imported the gcode without parsing it and generating the actual drawing.

     

    I will try now to rename all the generated files to gbr, so I can easily see them in Cambam.

     

    Thank you.

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  • 0 in reply to autodeskguest

    Well I tried and it exported alot of different files, when I try to import any of the files you see in the image attached I could only see the gcode in cambam, not the actual drawing, and I didn;t want to risk anything to run the gcode on the cnc whitout knowing what it tries to mill.

     

    Now I searched online for more answers and I seen some guys have .gbr files, I didn't had any of those, I tried to rename one .cmp file to .gbr and it imported the drawing, in fact I'm sure it's just because cambam will try to parse only .gbr files and make the drawing from the gcode, for other extension that it didn't know it just imported the gcode without parsing it and generating the actual drawing.

     

    I will try now to rename all the generated files to gbr, so I can easily see them in Cambam.

     

    Thank you.

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