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  • Hi, I'm new to Eagle and am working on my senior project with it. As I am a college student I have the free version. I am trying to make a board compatible with freescale's "tower" system, which does fit in the constrains of the size limit for the free version of eagle. My problem is that I am trying to put a pci-express slot on both sides of the board. to do this, however I have to mirror one of the slots, but when I do I get the error that the light edition of eagle cannot perform the requested action. It would still fit in the size constraints, so I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

    -Jared

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Hi Jared,

     

    Send the board to support@cadsoftusa.com, I'll take a look at it. As a preliminary question, is the board oriented in such way so that it's largest direction is from left to right? The EAGLE size limitation is strictly 4" x 3", if you make a 3" x 4" board EAGLE won't allow you to place components at the very top of the board.

     

    See if this is perhaps your situation.

     

    hth,

    Jorge Garcia

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  • in reply to Jorge_Garcia

    Thanks, actually i figured it out with some tinkering. I didn't realize that it mirrored about an axis on the end, but when i did i couldn't move and mirror in the same step at first. I finally tried right clicking on it and went into properties and set the position for the axis for after i mirrored it and clicked the mirror radio box. Thanks for your consideration.

    -Jared