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How do i create holes based on a DXF i have imported WITHOUT redrawing the polygons

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I have designed a panel from acrylic. It has switches, buttons, LEDs a LCD screen and back lighting. I saved the panel and then imported to brd as a dxf and use it in dimension layer for board outline etc. I need to cut out a number of holes based on the "holes" in the cad and some circles are NOT holes BUT LED positions. How do i create holes that must be cut out without drawing new polygons and trying to align to the DXF which i imported?

 

I hope that made sense. I need to be able to select a circle/hole and then create a hole to be cutout. Also i need to use some circles and positions for LEDs.

 

Thanks in advance

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    On 27/05/2016 6:09 a.m., Sean Hearder wrote:

    I have designed a panel from acrylic. It has switches, buttons, LEDs a LCD screen and back lighting. I saved the panel and then imported to brd as a dxf and use it in dimension layer for board outline etc. I need to cut out a number of holes based on the "holes" in the cad and some circles are NOT holes BUT LED positions. How do i create holes that must be cut out without drawing new polygons and trying to align to the DXF which i imported?

     

    I hope that made sense. I need to be able to select a circle/hole and then create a hole to be cutout. Also i need to use some circles and positions for LEDs.

     

    Thanks in advance

     

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    Hi Sean

     

    This forum (eagle.suggest.eng) is for making suggestions for changes to

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    On 27/05/2016 6:09 a.m., Sean Hearder wrote:

    I have designed a panel from acrylic. It has switches, buttons, LEDs a LCD screen and back lighting. I saved the panel and then imported to brd as a dxf and use it in dimension layer for board outline etc. I need to cut out a number of holes based on the "holes" in the cad and some circles are NOT holes BUT LED positions. How do i create holes that must be cut out without drawing new polygons and trying to align to the DXF which i imported?

     

    I hope that made sense. I need to be able to select a circle/hole and then create a hole to be cutout. Also i need to use some circles and positions for LEDs.

     

    Thanks in advance

     

    --

    To view any images and attachments in this post, visit:

    https://www.element14.com/community/message/197958

     

     

    Hi Sean

     

    This forum (eagle.suggest.eng) is for making suggestions for changes to

    the EagleCad Software.

     

    Please use the support (eagle.support.eng) or the user chat

    (eagle.userchat.eng) forums for posts of your nature.

     

    HTH

    Warren

     

  • 0 in reply to rachaelp

    rachaelp wrote:

    I thought this was an interesting query so decided to write a ULP to do this. Save the below as circleToHole.ulp.

    sprintf(cmd, "GRID mil; HOLE %f (%f %f);", 2.0 * u2mil(C.radius), u2mil(C.x), u2mil(C.y));

     

    you don't need to mess with the grid settings, just force the unit for

    the values:

     

    sprintf(cmd, "HOLE %fmil (%fmil %fmil);", 2.0 * u2mil(C.radius), u2mil(C.x), u2mil(C.y));

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         Lorenz

     

  • 0 in reply to autodeskguest

    Hi Lorenz, yep that's a good point. I'm still learning ULP at the moment so sometimes I still do things the long way where there is something much more obvious! :-)