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Hi Richard,

I am trying to create the "package" of a component to a library and I wish to focus my footprint on the origin, for that I would then use the Group and Move command in command line.

Can you tell me how to move a group with the Move command to specify coordinate, I tried this but ac does not work:

GROUP ALL;

MOVE (> -7.5 -8.4);

Best regard,

Arnauld

Thanks Richard,

I actually figured out how to make a separate job with the mill layer, but your suggstion to add a tab to the existing job (cam) file made it that much better.  Thanks again.

-Mike

Hi,

currently I do not know the prices for 1-year licenses, but I know that these licenses are not (yet) available in the Farnell/Newark catalogues. Please contact our CadSoft sales people for details.

Germany: sales@cadsoft.de, Phone: +49 8635 698910

USA: sales@cadsoftusa.com  Phone +1 954-237-0932

Regards,

Richard

Hi,

the CAM job does not contain a section that generates data about milling contours. Which layer did you use to draw the milling contours, is it 46, Milling?  Simply add a further section in the CAM job, select layer 46, use Gerber_RS274X device and select a file extension for the milling file, for example  .mil.

Then run the job again. For details about howto create/modify CAM jobs, please take a look into our EAGLE manual (chapter 9).

Regards,

Richard

There's a banner up top there saying Eagle is available on an annual license arrangement - I can't find any purchasing options for that on farnell, what options are there and what are the prices?  Thanks

Hey Richard,

I recently finished a board design and created gerber files with the holp of the Spark Fun Electronics sfe-special.cam file.  However, none of my milling specs. showed up on any of the output files (at least not the ones the board house requested in the upload).  Is it me?  Or is the sfe-special file not include milling slots? If not, do you know of a cam file that will include the milling specs. in the drill output (drd? file I think?).

-Mike Harmon

Hello again,

sorry my answer was not correct, there is an error in the command in wrote there. Let me try it again, please

The following should work:

start "C:\Program Files\EAGLE-5.11.0\bin\eaglecon"  -X -dgerber_rs274x  -opokus.gbr  singlesided.brd  via pad top

The options are marked bold.

Regards,

Richard

Hi, i tried your command but it say no device specified id i run this from menu start from batch file it say cant find -X  ???

Thx for help

Hi Kudlak,

you tried:

start "C:\Program Files\EAGLE-5.11.0\bin\eaglecon"  -X -gerber_rs274x  -opokus.gbr singlesided.brd via pad top

Could it be the - before gerber_rs274x? Please try

start "C:\Program Files\EAGLE-5.11.0\bin\eaglecon" -X gerber_rs274x  -opokus.gbr singlesided.brd via pad top

What is the error message reported?

Regards,
Richard

Hi Kevin,

don't you have a datasheet of the component? There you should find infomation about the package as well. There are some QFN20 packages in the libraries but they are 3.5 x 4.5 (R-PQFP-N20, texas.lbr) or 5x5x0.75mm (maxim.lbr). You could also take a look at cadsoft.de/download.htm into the libraries directory. There is  silabs-eth.lbr   but I did not the content how this qfn looks like.

Regards,

Richard