Have a question about CadSoft EAGLE?  Ask our Expert, Richard! (Archive)

Hi kemmi,

as the EAGLE acronym says it's an Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor. It's a very lean program that offers absolutely reliable tools for PCB design. The user interface is the same in all editor windows. It does not matter if you are working in library for creating components, or in the schematilc editor or in the layout. Once learned, you will be able to master every situation.

One of the greatest benefits is our very active community. Simply take a look into our newsgroups or into the Download area of CadSoft's web server. There are lots of user-contributed library files or User Language Programs for almost every purpose. By the way: The EAGLE User Language makes EAGLE very flexible. The User Language gives you access to every object of your schematic/board /library. So, for example, complex actions can be automatized. There is certainly more to be said about EAGLE, maybe there is one or the other EAGLE user that wants to share his opinion?

-Richard

Hi,

Normally, in the pcb editor, you see the components placed on the top side of the board. If you want to send a component to the bottom side then you can do it by mirroring the component of interest. But even you mirror a component it is still seen on the top site ( in fact it is on the bottom side ). So this causes confusing sometimes.To prevent this, you may disable the bottom side view from the menu, it is Ok. My question is,

Is there a feature to mirror the board completely and view the bottom side as if it was top side ? It is something like reverse view. If it is not applicable currently then, do you think adding this feature is worth to be done ?

Firat

Thats a great feautre request I'd like to be able to do that too - it makes visualising much easier.

Although it's a bit of a work around, one thing you can do is 'print' just the bottom layer(s) with the 'mirror' option checked. This will at least give you an image of the bottom side of the board as viewed from below.

-Kenny

Firat, Kenny,

some of our customers already asked for the possibility to flip the whole board, so that you can see it in bottom view. I suppose we (our development people) have set this onto the todo list. But I currently don't know when we could expect this feature. Propably not before a new major release.....

please don't ask for a date now.... I don't know....

Regards,

Richard

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the information. Knowing this feature is in the to-do list is well enough for me. Waiting for the major release.

Firat

Hi Richard I 'm learning Eaglecad and I'm having trouble figuring out how to change pad names from  I/O to pin 1,2,3 and so on for when I'm creating a symbol in the Library?

you can email me at pavlovski_dushko@yahoo.com.au

Please help

Message was edited by: Dushko Pavlovski

Hi Dushko,

the infomration I/O and the green circle around one end has nothing to do with the pin's name. This info shall show where the pin has to be connected to the net and tells you something aboout the pin direction. If you don't want to see this, hide layer 93, Pins (which is default).

What you want to see, I suppose, is the pin name and the pad name, correct? So check whether the pin's property Visible is set to both. If true, both names will be shown in the schematic.

Reagrds,

Richard

Hi Richard,

I am using your fremium , but i have elow douts can you please clarify,

Hi Shaibal,

1.  How to import projects from orcad capture?

This is not easily possible. There are tools that can import
netlist  into EAGLE, but you can't take the whole schematic/board.
The net list converter is on our web site:
www.cadsoft.de/download.htm, ULP directory, importbom_and_netlist.zip      

> 2.  How to import .max files from orcad layout file?

I don't know. What is a .max file?

> 3.  How to change the highlight colour?

Go to the menu Options/Set/Color and edit the color palette. Change the
colors of the highlight colors there. Details are in the manual chapter 5
about color definition.

> 4.  How to import component lib from layout and capture?

No possibilities, I know of, sorry.

> 5.  How many layers possible? ================================= Two layers

Freeware: 2 layers, Freemium: 4 layers,  Standard 6 layers, Professional 16 layers.

> 6.  What are the export format supported?

Data Export (Selection):
Partlist with database connection, as HTML, RTF, spreadsheet file... --
bom*.ulp, part*.ulp
Board statistics (number of drills, parts, signals...) -- statistic-brd.ulp
Data for a glue mask -- glue*.ulp
Milling outlines, prototypes -- outline.ulp, mill-outlines.ulp
CNC data for drilling and board outline -- b_cnc.ulp
Gcode data for mechanical etching / trace engraving -- gcode.zip ,
pcb-gcode.zip
DIF4.0 format from Digitaltest for testing equipment -- dif40.ulp
UNIDAT format for testing and mounting -- unidat.ulp
Data for Polar GRS500 Flying Probe test system -- eagletogrs.zip
IPC-D-356 for testing -- ipc-d-356.ulp
Fabmaster format for testing -- fabmst.ulp
ASCII data for mounting parts -- mount.ulp, mountsmd.ulp
4qd format for mounting SMT -- 4quad.ulp
GenCAD format for testing -- gencad.ulp
export-protelpcb.ulp  Export Eagle board to Protel ASCII format
Data for KiCAD PCB suite -- eagle2kicad*.ulp
3D data for a MCAD system (Ideas, SolidWorks...) -- generate_3d_data.ulp
Data for Optical Inspection system VISCOM -- viscomnew.ulp
Excellon2 format -- excellon_2.ulp
Drill data for LPKF drilling machines -- lpkf_drl.ulp
Drill data in PRO-PAL format for ISEL machines -- paldrill.ulp
Schematics in in Windows Meta File (WMF) format -- sch2wmf.ulp
DXF -- dxf.ulp
EPS format -- epsdraw*.ulp
EAGLE Schematic to Postscript -- eagle2ps*.ulp
PIC format for docu in Troff or LaTeX -- pic.ulp

Regards,
Richard

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