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Thanks!

Nicole, element14 Community Manager

Hi Jason,

thanks for answering. It's absolutely correct what you wrote.

Richard

While I don't know the site you're referring to (there's quite a few of them), I would say that the F1 help documentation (which is probably more accurate than "a site") doesn't specify what you do with filenames with spaces in.

Now I've been able to try this on Windows, you need to put single quotes around the whole file name.

I've just exported a 300 DPI monochrome BMP by using:

export image 'C:\test name.bmp' MONOCHROME 300;

MONOCHROME does need to be upper case (if you like it that way),

well, a site said it should be like this:

EXPORT IMAGE [PATH] [FILENAME] [MONOCHROME] [DPI]

I think if your filename has spaces, you need to put the whole filename in quotes - i.e. try:

EXPORT IMAGE "C:\Users\MikkelD.Jeppesen\Documents\eagle\Etchables etchable-top.png" MONOCHROME 600;

Could you tell me what the syntax is for EXPORT IMAGE?

this doesnt seem to do the job:

DISPLAY ALL

RATSNEST

DISPLAY None

DISPLAY Bottom Pads Vias

EXPORT IMAGE C:\Users\MikkelD.Jeppesen\Documents\eagle\Etchables etchable-bot.png MONOCHROME 600;

DISPLAY None

DISPLAY Top Pads Vias

EXPORT IMAGE C:\Users\MikkelD.Jeppesen\Documents\eagle\Etchables etchable-top.png MONOCHROME 600;

DISPLAY Bottom Unrouted Dimension tPlace bPlace

it says that it didnt recognise etchable-bot.png as a DPI (which i stated last.) however putting DPI infront of etchable-bot.png, it discards the etchable-bot.png and MONOCHROME command. So what´s the correct syntax?

i want to know how to panelize

Hi Richard,

If I want to duplicate the same circuit in the layout to send it to production (do not know the word in english), do i have to duplicated it first in the schematic and then i have two equal boards, or is there another way to do it?

Regards,

Xabi

Hi,

Is there a patch for iteadstudio CAM file to work with version 6.1?

I found this post

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php?topic=87872.0

But I can not see where to download an old version of Eagle...

Or is there a simple format change to the CAM file that I can make to get it to work?

Here is a link to the cam file

http://iteadstudio.com/store/images/produce/PCB/PCB%20prototype/ITeadstudio_CAM.rar

http://iteadstudio.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=19_20&products_id=175

Hi Ian,

this thread should no longer be used, because of the large number of posts here......

So please create a new thread for the next question....

There are some tools that allow to convert DXF format to EAGLE script.

Please look at http://www.cadsoft.de/downloads/tools-and-converters

Commonly used tools

dxf2scr-1.zip  (for free)

eagle_pcb_power_tools*.exe  (for small projects for free)

Regads,

Richard

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