Hi Verifying Gerbers on a trace by trace basis for a moderately complex multi-layer design could take a very long time. If you can't trust the program to go from the screen to the Gerbers, I'd say - find a new program... A bug like that nullifies any value from schematic checking or DRC.
Bob On Feb 26, 2012, at 5:36 PM, NeonJohn <[email protected]> wrote: > I use professionally. It was the best that our small company could > afford. Here are some tips that will save you mucho grief. > > 1) This is the biggie. Make your own parts library. Then put any part > that you have to create in that library. As well, put a copy of any > standard library part in your library AFTER you've verified that the > part, especially the footprint is valid. Then put that library under > SubVersion or whatever version control system you use. > > I call my library 00johh.lbr. The "00" makes it appear first in the > library list. > > 2) another biggie. Validate any part that you take from an Eagle > library. They are recklessly careless with those parts. I've found > silk screens on the solder side and even individual pins on the wrong > side. I lost a board run only once because of this but it was enough to > make me extremely paranoid. > > 3) LOOK AT YOUR GERBERS! It takes a pretty long while and it's tedious > work (I print mine out on an 11X17 printer and check off every feature > with a highlighter as I go) but it's vital. Eagle doesn't always > produce Gerbers like the board appears on the screen. Especially if you > get caught by #2 above. > > I use gerbv which is a Linux tool but I think there's a version for the > mac's almost-unix OS. > > John > > > On 02/26/2012 02:12 PM, Jim Hickstein wrote: >> In case anyone is following my progress, I started with EAGLE. It works >> fine on the Mac. I can tell it's not quite native (it even has a man(1) >> page!), but it's no problem. One afternoon with the tutorial, and I >> have a schematic. > > -- > John DeArmond > Tellico Plains, Occupied TN > http://www.neon-john.com <-- email from here > http://www.johndearmond.com <-- Best damned Blog on the net > PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net: BCB68D77 > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
