Best way to save project before routing

Robert Muertter wrote:

Hi,

This is my first Eagle project, I am new to pcb design.

Can someone tell me what the best way is to save a project before

routing?

I have completed my schematic and placed all my components on my board.

This was very time consuming

I want to try routing a few different ways, including manual and auto,

and want to be able to go back in case I mess something up.

I will try a 2 layer configuration first, but might need to use 4

layers.

I know that cntr Z goes back one step, but not sure how many steps I can

go back with it.

I had an issue before were I lost my back/forward annotation and had to

start over again with the layout. Don't want this to happen again.

 

Hi Robert, I can't help much with this because I don't use Eagle 6 and

don't do layout myself. But until someone comes online with an expert

answer maybe do this:

Last Wednesday I had a similar pickle. I used a software that was new

for me, for the first time at a very important event (clinical trial).

In other words the proverbial white-knuckle ride. What I did to make

absolutely sure that the software (or I ...) wouldn't accidentally

trample a saved but non-repeatable recording I regularly exported it all

to extra directories at regular intervals. Each such file dump got a new

directory. I even used a USB stick, in case the hard drive decided to

croak that afternoon. Back home I verified that the originals were ok,

backed them up and then erased all the extra directories.

--

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

On 05/21/2013 09:20 AM, Robert Muertter wrote:

Hi,

This is my first Eagle project, I am new to pcb design.

Can someone tell me what the best way is to save a project before

routing?

I'm a software engineer by profession, and I've learned the importance

of proper use of a code management utility. I commit my changes each

time I reach a point I want to be able to return to, and document what

changes I've made in each commit. This is especially useful when working

with schematics and board layouts as a textual diff often isn't that

illuminating.

It may sound like a pain, but it's not. Subversion is trivially easy to

use and has good support on almost every platform (Linux, Windows, Mac,

Solaris, etc.).

reece wrote on Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50

On 05/21/2013 09:20 AM, Robert Muertter wrote:

Hi,

This is my first Eagle project, I am new to pcb design.

Can someone tell me what the best way is to save a project before

routing?

 

I'm a software engineer by profession, and I've learned the importance

of proper use of a code management utility. I commit my changes each

time I reach a point I want to be able to return to, and document what

changes I've made in each commit. This is especially useful when

working

with schematics and board layouts as a textual diff often isn't that

illuminating.

 

It may sound like a pain, but it's not. Subversion is trivially easy

to

use and has good support on almost every platform (Linux, Windows,

Mac,

Solaris, etc.).

I agree subversion (or other revision control is a good idea).  However, if

you're at a point you don't want to commit then just copy the whole project

folder.  If you ever need it, just rename directories to get back to where

you where.

Cheers,

James.

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James Morrison wrote:

reece wrote on Thu, 23 May 2013 19:50

On 05/21/2013 09:20 AM, Robert Muertter wrote:

Hi,

This is my first Eagle project, I am new to pcb design.

Can someone tell me what the best way is to save a project before

routing?

I'm a software engineer by profession, and I've learned the importance

of proper use of a code management utility. I commit my changes each

time I reach a point I want to be able to return to, and document what

changes I've made in each commit. This is especially useful when

working

with schematics and board layouts as a textual diff often isn't that

illuminating.

 

It may sound like a pain, but it's not. Subversion is trivially easy

to

use and has good support on almost every platform (Linux, Windows,

Mac,

Solaris, etc.).

 

I agree subversion (or other revision control is a good idea).  However, if

you're at a point you don't want to commit then just copy the whole project

folder.  If you ever need it, just rename directories to get back to where

you where.

 

And set up that stack of backup directories on another drive across a

LAN or at least a USB stick. I still remember a guy at my first job. The

hard disk made an odd noise, then ... rat-tat-tat ... KERKLUNK ...

followed by a scream from the engineer.

--

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

why not just do a  "save as"?

Thanks for all your help!

I ended up using the copy function, as there is no "save as", and copied it in another folder and renamed it.

I also copied it to my Dropbox. Sofar my design is going well...

I believe Eagle also saves a buch of previous versions, they all show up in the copied folder.

Thanks alot for the help!

Robert

Robert Muertter wrote:

Thanks for all your help!

 

I ended up using the copy function, as there is no "save as", and copied

it in another folder and renamed it.

I also copied it to my Dropbox. Sofar my design is going well...

I believe Eagle also saves a buch of previous versions, they all show up

in the copied folder.

 

You can set the amount and frequency of auto-backups in Eagle via

Options -> Backup, in the Control Panel. In version 4 the max number of

stored files is 9 and the max auto-save interval length is 60 minutes. I

keep both set to those limits so if I ever did something really stupid

it would cover me for a workday.

--

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/