Am I in the right direction?

Ok so trying not have a huge quote. I will try and address everyone who is helping me. First off thanks for the dimension as opposed to polygons. It still took me a few minutes to figure it out. There is no "line" tool and when you draw a wire it only gives you the option for top or bottom. I then realized you can select dimension layer for wire ONLY BEFORE you draw the wire and then it is a line. I have deleted the polygons and drew in a new border using miter for edges that needed rounded and I used an arc in one spot that need a full radius.

A few more replies I am using Eagle Cad Light 7.4.0. I tried upgrading to 9 but it kept giving me errors for missing library files after downloading a couple I gave up on it and just used what I had. I fully intend on sending this out to get produced.

As far as an edge connector I had looked in that con-pc.lbr. before I even used the wires and nothing seemed to work. The wire width of .032 is perfect for what I need and the longer ones start at .05 and go to .35. The shorter ones start at .1 and end at .35. They have a center spacing of .059.

I actually have the engineering blueprints giving me most the specs for this board. I just have very little experience with Eagle and zero training or education. It is all based off what I can teach myself. I just downloaded Eagle and started watching youtube videos and reading forums. So this is why I don't have a good grip on even the basics.

I am not done with the board. I still need to run many traces from the header pins to the edge connectors. Is there a reason why this wire method as edge connectors will not work? Are these edge connectors not just thicker wire traces? The engineering blueprints for this board specifies that the Gold Plate contacts 5u" Gold  min over 50u" Nickel Min. Would it make a big difference If I did gold over copper? Since the wires are copper?

This board basically has two sides the top and bottom. It has 4 spots for capacitors (only 2 get used so the other 2 are kind of not even needed), 1 42 pin eprom, and 1 8 pin microchip which I used the header pins to create holes for, again I could not find any parts library that matched the size and spacing as the header pins. The header pins match all these parts spacing perfectly. I will be ordering unpopulated boards.

The image I showed did show top and bottom layers, the only thing that will be on bottom layer is edge connectors and they were hidden under the top red layer edge connectors. In that pic I showed you can see some slight blue peeking down in a few spots.

On 21/12/18 14:20, Gregory Sprague wrote:

This board basically has two sides the top and bottom. It has 4 spots for capacitors (only 2 get used so the other 2 are kind of not even needed), 1 42 pin eprom, and 1 8 pin microchip which I used the header pins to create holes for, again I could not find any parts library that matched the size and spacing as the header pins. The header pins match all these parts spacing perfectly. I will be ordering unpopulated boards.

And I say again, this is where you're going wrong.

Do you have a schematic for this board? If not, WHY NOT? You cannot

design a board unless you know what you're designing, and the schematic

is your definition of that. Without it, you're just doodling aimlessly.

Your schematic is going to include the components you're placing - four

capacitors, a PIC, an EPROM - and will not contain any fakery with pin

headers. You're being TOO F&$£&*G LAZY for your own good if you don't

take the time to learn how to create proper library parts for the

components you use.

Once you have the schematic, with all the parts properly defined, your

board will pretty much drop straight out. You must place the parts where

you want them. You will then notice:

- Eagle knows which pads need to be connected and shows "airwires"

- All the components have silk screen markings

- The silk screen includes pin 1 marks so that when you assemble it,

you put things in the right way round

- Eagle will tell you when you've drawn something wrong

The time you save by having all this help more than makes up for the

time you spend doing the schematic. Taking a shortcut just ends up

wasting your time later on.

On 21/12/18 14:20, Gregory Sprague wrote:

This board basically has two sides the top and bottom. It has 4 spots for capacitors (only 2 get used so the other 2 are kind of not even needed), 1 42 pin eprom, and 1 8 pin microchip which I used the header pins to create holes for, again I could not find any parts library that matched the size and spacing as the header pins. The header pins match all these parts spacing perfectly. I will be ordering unpopulated boards.

And I say again, this is where you're going wrong.

Do you have a schematic for this board? If not, WHY NOT? You cannot

design a board unless you know what you're designing, and the schematic

is your definition of that. Without it, you're just doodling aimlessly.

Your schematic is going to include the components you're placing - four

capacitors, a PIC, an EPROM - and will not contain any fakery with pin

headers. You're being TOO F&$£&*G LAZY for your own good if you don't

take the time to learn how to create proper library parts for the

components you use.

Once you have the schematic, with all the parts properly defined, your

board will pretty much drop straight out. You must place the parts where

you want them. You will then notice:

- Eagle knows which pads need to be connected and shows "airwires"

- All the components have silk screen markings

- The silk screen includes pin 1 marks so that when you assemble it,

you put things in the right way round

- Eagle will tell you when you've drawn something wrong

The time you save by having all this help more than makes up for the

time you spend doing the schematic. Taking a shortcut just ends up

wasting your time later on.