Thanks for the reply Javid. On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 11:34 -0600, Javid Butler wrote: > Kirk- > > I've usd View Master a little bit in the past. Good for minor changes, not > major ones. It's not open source, but it is not expensive-$49. > > Here's the link. > > http://www.pentalogix.com/
The (my) problem with View Master is that it is a Windows program. > I'm surprised you had trouble doing what you wanted in Eagle, although it > can take some futzing (no better word to describe it) to get it to do what > you really want someitmes. But on a recent job done with Eagle 4.16 we added > a text soldermask mask, which places text into the silkscreen layer. It's a > good way to place text on the component side of a board without adding a > silkscreen for that side. You do have to consider traces when doing it. > Point being that Eagle should have allowed you to do what you wanted. I am still a little green with Eagle, but I have gotten allot better with it in the last couple of weeks. The problem was that, in the board mode, I drew a couple of lines with the wire function and some circles which I wanted to show on the silk screen, but when using the CAM these didn't get included. I went through different CAM files, so I don't recall which I used. From a text editor, I looked at a couple of CAM files and they where complex enough to prompt me to try to edit the Gerber files directly. I tend to edit G code by hand and Gerber looked very similar. Also the vendor, Sparkfun.com didn't have a formal way of handling the board outline. So I figured a thin box drawn in the top silk would suffice, so I borrowed the code from the outline file that Sparkfun doesn't accept and inserted it into the silk. There was also a requirement to have all silk features be at least .008", and Eagle defaults at .0065" (I think). They have a ULP I ran to fix the silk, but it had some bad side effects. While I was in the silk for the wire lines, I notice all I needed to do was change the tool sizes in the tool list. So you can see, editing the Gerber's by hand was good to me. > If you email me your Eagle project files I'd be happy to look at them and > see if I can spot why the features did not show up. > > Javid I am heading out the door, so I will try to post the files on my website tonight sometime. I'll post the link, here on the list, when they are ready. -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
