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Eagle 7.6 and Excellon CAM

matt_compton@trimble.com
matt_compton@trimble.com over 10 years ago

I just upgraded to the 7.6 release and when I tried to generate my standard drill files by running CAM job => excellon.cam I get the following error message on my 4 layer board

 

"CAM job doesn't cover the Layer Setup! - MIssing signal layers 1 2 15 16"

 

A quick look at the DRC indicates the layers are setup correctly and in fact, I had a prior successful autoroute. When I try to manually add the layers, it then complains that more than 1 signal layer is active. It does seem to generate the files and they seem reasonable to a quick scan but errors are indicated in the flow

 

When I retreat to Eagle 7.5 the same excellon.cam job works without issue and no errors are generated. Both the Eagle 7.5 and 7.6 installations are on MacOS. Is there a new trick that I need to be aware of to make standard CAM work on 7.6 without error ? The gerber generation went without incident, but the CAM failure for the drill file generation which has worked pretty much forever is  a bit annoying.

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    autodeskguest over 10 years ago

    Matt Compton wrote on Mon, 23 May 2016 18:48

    "CAM job doesn't cover the Layer Setup! - MIssing signal layers 1 2 15

    16"

     

     

    I got something similar too, when I was doing a 2 layer board on Windows 7.

    It looked like the right layers were selected, so I just assumed this was

    more nanny-ware and kept going.  I checked the resulting drill files, and

    they seemed to have reasonable data in them.

     

    At the time I guessed that somebody had the bright idea of warning you that

    you don't have signal layers selected, but forgot there are other uses for

    the CAM processor than writing data derived from signal layers.  I have no

    idea what that message is really trying to tell me or what I'm supposed to

    do about it.

     

    How do such obvious things get thru testing?

    --

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

     

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    autodeskguest over 10 years ago

    Matt Compton wrote on Mon, 23 May 2016 18:48

    "CAM job doesn't cover the Layer Setup! - MIssing signal layers 1 2 15

    16"

     

     

    I got something similar too, when I was doing a 2 layer board on Windows 7.

    It looked like the right layers were selected, so I just assumed this was

    more nanny-ware and kept going.  I checked the resulting drill files, and

    they seemed to have reasonable data in them.

     

    At the time I guessed that somebody had the bright idea of warning you that

    you don't have signal layers selected, but forgot there are other uses for

    the CAM processor than writing data derived from signal layers.  I have no

    idea what that message is really trying to tell me or what I'm supposed to

    do about it.

     

    How do such obvious things get thru testing?

    --

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

     

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    autodeskguest over 10 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

    On 5/24/2016 2:21 PM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

    Matt Compton wrote on Mon, 23 May 2016 18:48

    "CAM job doesn't cover the Layer Setup! - MIssing signal layers 1 2 15

    16"

     

    I got something similar too, when I was doing a 2 layer board on Windows 7.

    It looked like the right layers were selected, so I just assumed this was

    more nanny-ware and kept going.  I checked the resulting drill files, and

    they seemed to have reasonable data in them.

     

    At the time I guessed that somebody had the bright idea of warning you that

    you don't have signal layers selected, but forgot there are other uses for

    the CAM processor than writing data derived from signal layers.  I have no

    idea what that message is really trying to tell me or what I'm supposed to

    do about it.

     

    How do such obvious things get thru testing?

     

     

    Hi Guys,

     

    This error is an oversight on the part of one of our developers. It will

    be fixed shortly, sorry about the annoyance.

     

    hth,

    Jorge Garcia

     

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