Changing from inch to mil permanent..?

Peter Andersen wrote:

Hi

 

How do I change from using inch to using mil as standard measuring unit when

opening board or schematic? I would like mil to be the standard unit in the

program.

 

I am pretty tired of changing it every time I open a window...;-/

 

And next..: how do I make a permanent change of the grid size for the

boardeditor (both normal and Alt)?

 

Peter

 

 

 

 

 

 

But Peter, "mil" is just 1/1000 inch !

Did you mean millimetres ? (mm)

John G.

John Giddy wrote:

Peter Andersen wrote:

Hi

 

How do I change from using inch to using mil as standard measuring

unit when opening board or schematic? I would like mil to be the

standard unit in the program.

 

I am pretty tired of changing it every time I open a window...;-/

 

And next..: how do I make a permanent change of the grid size for the

boardeditor (both normal and Alt)?

 

Peter

 

 

 

But Peter, "mil" is just 1/1000 inch !

I know. But mill is much easier to work with.

Did you mean millimetres ? (mm)

No.

Peter

Peter Andersen wrote:

John Giddy wrote:

Peter Andersen wrote:

Hi

 

How do I change from using inch to using mil as standard measuring

unit when opening board or schematic? I would like mil to be the

standard unit in the program.

 

I am pretty tired of changing it every time I open a window...;-/

 

And next..: how do I make a permanent change of the grid size for the

boardeditor (both normal and Alt)?

 

Peter

 

 

But Peter, "mil" is just 1/1000 inch !

I know. But mill is much easier to work with.

 

Did you mean millimetres ? (mm)

No.

 

Peter

 

 

In /scr/eagle.scr for example

GRID mil 50 dots on alt mil 10;

mil unit, dots, grid on, default grid 50 mils and alternative grid 10 mils

GRID mm 1 lines off alt mm 0.1

millimeter unit, lines, grid off, default grid 1 millimeter an

alternative grid 0.1 millimeters

Regards

   Asko

Peter Andersen wrote:

Hi

 

How do I change from using inch to using mil as standard measuring

unit when opening board or schematic? I would like mil to be the

standard unit in the program.

 

I am pretty tired of changing it every time I open a window...;-/

 

And next..: how do I make a permanent change of the grid size for the

boardeditor (both normal and Alt)?

 

Peter

Anyone.....??

Peter

Peter Andersen wrote:

Peter Andersen wrote:

Hi

 

How do I change from using inch to using mil as standard measuring

unit when opening board or schematic? I would like mil to be the

standard unit in the program.

 

I am pretty tired of changing it every time I open a window...;-/

 

And next..: how do I make a permanent change of the grid size for the

boardeditor (both normal and Alt)?

 

Peter

 

Anyone.....??

 

Peter

Edit your eagle.scr file, which lives in the scr directory under your Eagle

installation directory (\Program Files\Eagle-4.16r2\scr on my system).  The

eagle.scr script file has a section for each editor (BRD, SCH, LBR, DEV,

SYM, PAC).  I also like to work in mil, so my BRD section includes:

grid mil;

You can add whatever commands you want to eagle.scr to configure Eagle to

come up the way you like in the various editors.

--

Bert Menkveld

Edit your eagle.scr file, which lives in the scr directory under your

Eagle installation directory (\Program Files\Eagle-4.16r2\scr on my

system).  The eagle.scr script file has a section for each editor

(BRD, SCH, LBR, DEV, SYM, PAC).  I also like to work in mil, so my

BRD section includes:

grid mil;

 

You can add whatever commands you want to eagle.scr to configure

Eagle to come up the way you like in the various editors.

Great! I didn't know that configuration file existed. I just love Eagle

Peter