[sdiy] getting started with a PCB/schem application

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Tony Rolando at 2009-02-19 00:19...
> ... This is 
> the one thing that makes me consider leaving eagle. It is nearly 
> impossible to do this simple function. One must layout each summing 
> stage individually. There are tricks to get around this limitation, but 
> I have found that often these tricks take almost as long as just doing 
> the layout again, and they present many possibilities for naming errors 
> and etc...

Yes, that Eagle 'feature' is a real nuisance.  Without the ability to 
copy and paste the board layout, to make more than one copy of the board 
at a time I have to run the CAM processor several times, changing the X 
and Y offsets.  Once the resultant PS files are converted to PDF, I then 
have to run the transparency paper through the printer for each of the 
PDFs to get my panelised board.

Sheesh, what a pain!  Added to the length of the process, after a few 
passes through the printer, the transparency starts to curl making jams 
likely.


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