Additional import and export features

On 26.01.2012 01:32, Joe Mickley wrote:

  I badly need 2 items.

 

1.  An import function into librarys that can provide the mechanical structure for components.  Ideally, something like a DXF.importer into the

dimension layer.  Components that have mechanical features in addition to the basic part connection pads need a lot of effort to create.  This

is usually a duplicate effort from a mechanical design done outside of Eagle.

There are some tools that allow conversion from DXF to EAGLE script.

==> http://www.cadsoft.de/downloads/tools-and-converters

for example

  dxf2scr-1.zip  (for free)

  eagle_pcb_power_tools*.exe

2. An export function other than pixels out of the board layout.  Again, ideally DXF.  This would allow more precice integration of the finished

board into exernal CAD programs (That board has to go live someplace after it is done).  Currently I have to do a hack and plot out into HPGL,

then convert it to DXF.  This is imprecise and requires clean-up of the DXF to get critical dimensions correct.

 

Any recommendations?

 

Use DXF.ULP.

--

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Richard Hammerl

  CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de

  FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/

On 26.01.2012 01:32, Joe Mickley wrote:

  I badly need 2 items.

 

1.  An import function into librarys that can provide the mechanical structure for components.  Ideally, something like a DXF.importer into the

dimension layer.  Components that have mechanical features in addition to the basic part connection pads need a lot of effort to create.  This

is usually a duplicate effort from a mechanical design done outside of Eagle.

There are some tools that allow conversion from DXF to EAGLE script.

==> http://www.cadsoft.de/downloads/tools-and-converters

for example

  dxf2scr-1.zip  (for free)

  eagle_pcb_power_tools*.exe

2. An export function other than pixels out of the board layout.  Again, ideally DXF.  This would allow more precice integration of the finished

board into exernal CAD programs (That board has to go live someplace after it is done).  Currently I have to do a hack and plot out into HPGL,

then convert it to DXF.  This is imprecise and requires clean-up of the DXF to get critical dimensions correct.

 

Any recommendations?

 

Use DXF.ULP.

--

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Richard Hammerl

  CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de

  FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/

Am 26.01.2012 16:33, schrieb Richard Hammerl:

Use DXF.ULP.

The question about DXF output has been asked twelve billion times, and a

lot of users surely don't know that EAGLE can do a thing like that. And

why is that so? Because the DXF output is NOT available via the GUI.

Every user searches for a function like that

  - in the 'save' or 'save as' dialogs and

  - in the 'export' function (that's where it belongs).

DXF is nowhere mentioned -> Conclusion: EAGLE cannot do that.

For the DXF import, I can understand that CadSoft doesn't want to

program this, since it's quite some work. But for the DXF output: This

already HAS been programmed, so why not put it into the program proper

and make it available with the EXPORT command? Doing things with

external ULPs is something that the typical user doesn't want to fiddle

around with ('programming? aargh - I cannot do that!'). And why should

one be able to export to a bitmap with EXPORT in the first place, but

not to DXF? This doesn't seem a logical choice. Better to make it clear

and logical and nice and wonderful and let the user FIND that function

easily...

Andreas Weidner