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Subject: Re: Board layout with freeware CAD EAGLE - how to fill a polygon

From: "derekhawkins" <eldata@...>
Date: 2006-03-10

>Next, I want to learn how to toggle the
>visibility of any particular layer (ON and OFF)

Click on the Display icon (blue/red/green overlapping squares) to the
left or use view/display/hide layers. Click to the far left in the line
whose name you want to display or hide then choose OK. Refer to one of
the tutorial links mentioned.

>I don't understand how that copper pour is
>done using a single polygon.

Click on polygon, set polygon toolbar attributes (layer, solid, isolate
etc.) , create the polygon outline around the whole board, click on
ratsnest. You can test this by creating a few wires and framing them
with a polygon outline then clicking on ratsnest. It gets more involved
when you want to ∗∗Restrict∗∗ the pour to only certain areas or connect
to the pour. Again tutorials and archive searches are your best bet.
Search on >"copper pour" eagle<, >polygon ratsnest< etc., but get the
Display fundamentals out of the way first. Also, learn what each icon
to the left stands for, its much faster than using the dropdowns.

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