[sdiy] getting started with a PCB/schem application

[Tony Rolando]

Yeah, I have used this trick. The thing that i do not like is that the 
schematic will no longer be consistent, unless you do the same thing in 
the schematic, and then go through and rename all the nets so they 
match. You can't have it all!

Tony

Tom Bugs wrote:
> 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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