On 07.07.15 06:11, Gene Heskett wrote: > Eagle demands the .1 spacing too, and I was not able to turn that off > when I made the board for the lathe. So I may as well use the perboard > with the solder rings.
Nooo. Andy's dead right - Eagle will allow you to place stuff to thousandths, by: * Typing coordinates when placing a macro, or * Typing coordinates to change position of a selected component, or * Changing the grid to whatever. The last is simple: Click on the little square of flyspecks ensconced under the "File" menu. I.e. above the palette of tools. (Hovering the mouse over it coincidentally pops up the name "Grid") On the board my eagle woke up at, that dialogue box shows that I have the primary grid set to 1.27 mm (= 0.05" in the old money. Good for faffing with inch-gridded components), and the alternate grid is set to 0.1 mm, which is good for dropping 0.3 mm tracks 0.3 mm apart. To use the alternate grid when placing components or routing tracks, depress <Alt> while doing so. So you could keep 0.1" for most of the board, and just set the alternate grid either to something fine for general fiddling, or e.g. 0.05" if that's what puts you at 90° for making the quadrature encoder. Erik (Catching up on mail. Just back from a week on the farm - with another ute-load of firewood. It was only 2°C (36°F) last night. Wouldn't want to have to pay the utilities to heat this barn of a house.) -- "So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key." "Already Gone" by Jack Tempchin (recorded by The Eagles) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
