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Noob at this... trying to generate Gerber and its too big

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Former Member over 10 years ago

Ok so long story short, I fly RC aircraft one of them being micro size quadcopters, and I designed a circuit for one of them.  It looks good but when I try to export as a gerber using the CAM thing it makes the gerber files way too big... the size of the whole circuit is only about 25mm x 25mm or so but it makes the file huge (I use an online gerber viewer) webGerber

 

I have tried several "jobs" to no avail... getting very annoyed.  It makes the circuit correctly, but it makes the board way way too big.  I attached the brd file... if you can't help me do it myself, can someone at least do the gerber conversion for me? image

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago +1
    Success! I ignored the preview stuff and uploaded it to a PCB site... and voila! Attachments:
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    0 e14candies over 10 years ago

    By the "size"  do you  mean gigabytes or inches?

     

    I've found that many viewers can show boards at different scaling/zoom

    levels.  So look at a known component pad spacing & use that as a reference

    for any gerber viewing.

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    Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

     

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    0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to e14candies

    I mean that when I view it in the WebGerber, the circuit is there on the board but it's tiny, only about 25x25mm like I said (1x1") but the entire circuit board is huge.... many inches.  So my tiny little circuit is sitting in the corner of the board and the rest is empty PCB...

     

    I think it's trying to render it the size of the original freeware size, but the size of the board is correct in the program (I resized it like this... change the PCB board size in Eagle - Electronics Forums) instead of what I resized it to image

     

     

    I am a complete noob with PCB designing, I am just trying to make a simple circuit... its really just four small circuits connected at the power inputs (speaking of which, I forgot to put the power pads in it, I'll need to do that)

     

     

    "My guess

    is that you are using polygons with width=0?"

    I have no idea what that means image I didn't change any of the settings in the program.  I used this cam file for the job.

    https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/using-eagle-board-layout/generating-gerbers

    "SparkFun’s CAM file"

     

    When I first rendered as a gerber using CAM, I forgot to resize the board so it was huge just like it is when I render it now, with a tiny circuit in the corner.  But when I resized it in the program, it still renders the board huge leaving the circuit a tiny thing in the corner image

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    0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to e14candies

    I mean that when I view it in the WebGerber, the circuit is there on the board but it's tiny, only about 25x25mm like I said (1x1") but the entire circuit board is huge.... many inches.  So my tiny little circuit is sitting in the corner of the board and the rest is empty PCB...

     

    I think it's trying to render it the size of the original freeware size, but the size of the board is correct in the program (I resized it like this... change the PCB board size in Eagle - Electronics Forums) instead of what I resized it to image

     

     

    I am a complete noob with PCB designing, I am just trying to make a simple circuit... its really just four small circuits connected at the power inputs (speaking of which, I forgot to put the power pads in it, I'll need to do that)

     

     

    "My guess

    is that you are using polygons with width=0?"

    I have no idea what that means image I didn't change any of the settings in the program.  I used this cam file for the job.

    https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/using-eagle-board-layout/generating-gerbers

    "SparkFun’s CAM file"

     

    When I first rendered as a gerber using CAM, I forgot to resize the board so it was huge just like it is when I render it now, with a tiny circuit in the corner.  But when I resized it in the program, it still renders the board huge leaving the circuit a tiny thing in the corner image

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