putting copyright symbol in PCB

ALT+<0169> on the num pad works for me.

http://www.irongeek.com/alt-numpad-ascii-key-combos-and-chart.html

dane wrote:

I'd like to put the copyright ("c" within a circle) symbol within text on a

PCB, like this:

 

<company name>  <project name>  <revision>  <copyright symbol>  <year>

 

I tried to use the ascii character copied into the clipboard and in the text

info dialog window it shows fine, but on the PCB it is a comma-looking

character.

 

I know that I could manually draw it, but then if I move it around there is

a greater chance I'll not properly copy all the pieces.  I could also make

it a package, but again it would then be seperate from the text that may

move around the board throughout layout.

 

Is there a more inherent internal mechanism to support high-order ascii

characters such as the copyright symbol?

 

thanks,

..dane

 

 

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ALT+<0169> on the num pad works for me.

http://www.irongeek.com/alt-numpad-ascii-key-combos-and-chart.html

 

dane wrote:

I'd like to put the copyright ("c" within a circle) symbol within text on

a

PCB, like this:

If you draw "Text" in the PCB (not schematic!) on any layer, within the

dialog box, yes, alt-0169 enters the copyright character.  But as soon as

you actually place it on the PCB, it reverts to what resembles a funky

backwards "F" ...   If you edit the text, then again within the dialog box

it properly shows as the copyright symbol.  But again on the PCB itself it

reverts back to the funky backwards "F"..

Maybe the font I'm using is different???

I'm using eagle 5.6.0, BTW.

thanks,

..dane

With vector font (used for production in combination with the cam-processor)

it is not possible to use ascii > 127. This is written somwhere in the

manual

r

"dane" <dane.ulp@lewisinnovative.com> wrote in message

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Is there a more inherent internal mechanism to support high-order ascii

characters such as the copyright symbol?

Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

On 11/24/09 09:47, Morten Leikvoll wrote:

"dane" <dane.ulp@lewisinnovative.com> wrote in message

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Is there a more inherent internal mechanism to support high-order ascii

characters such as the copyright symbol?

 

Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

Why not simply draw an arc and a circle?

Klaus Schmidinger

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Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the

ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

 

Why not simply draw an arc and a circle?

I can do both of these, however it is a minor nusiance to have to group all

of the pieces when I wish to move it somewhere else.   I was hoping Eagle

would support high-order ASCII characters for ease-of-use, that's all.

thanks,

..dane

dane wrote:

Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the

ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

Why not simply draw an arc and a circle?

 

I can do both of these, however it is a minor nusiance to have to group all

of the pieces when I wish to move it somewhere else.   I was hoping Eagle

would support high-order ASCII characters for ease-of-use, that's all.

 

thanks,

...dane

 

 

It could be made with a no pin lib part with different sizes as a

different package. To keep it all together add the year and company info

then it is all one item when editing. I have not used the Ver 5's new

attributes but a lib part with the circle C with year and company

attribute would be a nice addition to anybodies lib.

Paul R.

On 11/25/09 20:01, dane wrote:

Draw a bitmap (add your logo as well) and import it using one of the

ulp's

that is coming with Eagle.

Why not simply draw an arc and a circle?

 

I can do both of these, however it is a minor nusiance to have to group all

of the pieces when I wish to move it somewhere else.   I was hoping Eagle

would support high-order ASCII characters for ease-of-use, that's all.

Please note that ulrimately when generating production output,

like Gerber files, for instance, you might end up losing those

characters again, because they are not supported by Gerber.

Using only 7bit ASCII characters saves you a lot of trouble

Klaus Schmidinger

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Klaus Schmidinger                       Phone: +49-8635-6989-10

CadSoft Computer GmbH                   Fax:   +49-8635-6989-40

Pleidolfweg 15                          Email:   kls@cadsoft.de

D-84568 Pleiskirchen, Germany           URL:     www.cadsoft.de

_______________________________________________________________

Klaus Schmidinger schrieb:

Please note that ulrimately when generating production output,

like Gerber files, for instance, you might end up losing those

characters again, because they are not supported by Gerber.

Not if they were existent in the vector font.

However I do agree that the expense of integrating 8 bit fonts is not

reasonably related to its advantages.

I would rather like hershey font characters for the lower 7 bits...

Using only 7bit ASCII characters saves you a lot of trouble

In the current situation: yes.

Tilmann

Tilmann Reh wrote:

Please note that ulrimately when generating production output,

like Gerber files, for instance, you might end up losing those

characters again, because they are not supported by Gerber.

 

Not if they were existent in the vector font.

 

However I do agree that the expense of integrating 8 bit fonts is not

reasonably related to its advantages.

one problem is that you had to choose one character set and there will

be customers wanting another one... You need UTF8 these days if you

want to provide more than 7 bit.

I would rather like hershey font characters for the lower 7 bits...

Would be nicer than the current font, although I don't care much about

font cosmetics on boards and schematics.

The most important criterion for me is to get the smallest possible

text for a given minimum trace width. The Eagle font with 15% ratio

did a good job regarding this.

Do you think that there are better suited Hershey fonts?

Oliver