[sdiy] getting started with a PCB/schem application

[Tom Bugs]

Close the schematic, then group select the whole board, cut (click go) 
and paste - bingo - panelized boards! (You can copy from other boards 
too if you so desire - just keep the schematics closed and maybe save as 
a new .brd file).

Matthew Smith wrote:
> 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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