Comments on: How-to: Prepare your Eagle designs for manufacture http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/ Fresh hacks every day Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:22:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: CircuitPeople http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-455232 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:33:07 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-455232 Ryan — I’d go one step more. Unless the design is for some reason secret I would take those gerbers and post them online for “peer/social review”. Correctness is one concern, but often there are substantial cost savings to be had with small tweaks (e.g. small increases in trace & space, widening long tracks, shrinking the layout, etc.). Getting more sets of eyes on a design improves the chances of getting the board made best, for least cost.

]]> By: Ryan O'Connor http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-455193 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:16:59 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-455193 Providing Gerber files is definitely the right way to get a PCB manufactured. Be sure to use a Gerber viewer, which you can download for free, to verify your design before you send it. Most fab houses will run a number of checks to be sure there are not any issues with the design. If you simply send a board file, the fab house MAY be able to produce Gerbers, but then you will not have the opportunity to verify your design.

]]> By: Greg http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-314140 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:36:19 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-314140 Project archive can be found here: http://www.whereisian.com/files/dpf.v1.zip

]]> By: Dave http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-156257 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:03:09 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-156257 I used the CAM processor from SparkFun but got this:
BatchPCB is locking down. We are no longer accepting any floating files. Please clean up your uploaded file and resubmit.
We are only accepting the following list of file extensions:

* TopCopper – “.gtl” , “.cmp”, “.top”
* BottomCopper – “.gbl”, “.sol”, “.bot”
* TopSolderMask – “.gts”, “.stc”, “.smt”, “.stoptop”, “.tsm”
* BottomSolderMask – “.gbs”, “.sts”, “.smb”, “.stopbot”, “.bsm”
* TopSilk – “.gto”, “.plc”, “.sst”, “.positop”, “.leg”, “.slk”
* BottomSilk – “.gbo”, “.pls”, “.ssb”, “.posibot”, “.bsk”
* Drill – “.drl”, “.txt”, “.tap”, “.drill”, “.gdd”, “.drd”, “.cnc”, “.exl”
* KeepOut – “.gko”
* MiddleCopper1 – “.g2″
* MiddleCopper2 – “.g3″
* BottomStencil – “.gbp”
* TopStencil – “.gtp”
* Outline – “.outline”, “.oln”

BatchPCB Support

Anybody ever get this??

]]> By: Dave http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-156217 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:11:54 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-156217 Anybody know how to run the CAM processor so that the gerbers are output to a separate folder? It’s really annoying to have them mixed with the schematic and board files.

]]> By: mechtron http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-126329 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:32:06 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-126329 Thanks for the tutorial.

]]> By: spiffed http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-125465 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:28:51 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-125465 The default for trace-widths (and spacing) is set by (the greater) of the class dialog or the DRC. To set a particular group of nets (eg VCC & GND) to a different min trace size, assign them to a different class then use the class dialog to set a greater trace size.

]]> By: Squirrel http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-125422 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:39:38 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-125422 @medix, whenever you do power, it is recommended to use planes. A tool that is really useful in eagle is the configure tool (looks like a wrench). You click on that then click on the property you wish to assign, then whenever you click on a part/trace, it will assign that property. I believe it also sets the default for trace width if you go that route.

]]> By: Squirrel http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-125414 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:31:27 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-125414 lol i love the drc (aka the caffienometer) cuz it shows you how awake you were when routing xD

but yeah, bigger traces are better cuz they offer less resistance

]]> By: Crystal G. Peterson http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-121049 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:20:38 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-121049 Non-existent customer service at Natwest and complete lack of any attempt at complaint resolution.

]]> By: Jackie Ehn http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-118828 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:44:05 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-118828 I wanted to get some custom t shirts prInted,and wanted to know If you or any body used usatees I heard they were good screen prInters. can I get some opnIons?

]]> By: James http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-86744 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:49:52 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-86744 Thanks for a great guide and a very useful CAM script. Also thanks for the pointer to freeplot, much better than GC Prevue.

]]> By: error404 http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-59935 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:25:45 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-59935 @jproach:

As far as I understand there is a fairly high fixed tooling cost associated with producing any PCB. Actually running off boards is very cheap, but creating the tools (masks for the various layers) is relatively expensive. I think the reason this isn’t a big issue for BatchPCB etc. is because at a local fab house they will create a small set of masks specifically for your board while BatchPCB will make one big one with many designs, spreading the cost.

That’s the tradeoff if you want decent turn times. Some fab houses will keep your tooling around and give you a cheaper rate if you want more copies of a previously produced design as well, which is a nice bonus.

]]> By: CP http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-59848 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:20:40 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-59848 @ian

Ya got an acid trap at about 1.605 X, 0.722 Y but it wasn’t going to hurt anything even if if did etch through. Anyone using the gerbers might want to fix it, just to make the fab happy.

]]> By: Ian Lesnet http://hackaday.com/2009/01/15/how-to-prepare-your-eagle-designs-for-manufacture/comment-page-1/#comment-59632 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:40:02 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7678#comment-59632 Here are the gerbers we submitted for the digital picture frame. This PCB cost $7.50 at BatchPCB.

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