Hi Tod,
I thought I'd look at the Excellon files, they should have the hole
data. Somewhere is a program to convert that to Gcode. Just having the
coordinates and drill sizes should do it. If I can import points into
Vector CAD/CAM, I can generate a Gcode program.
So that's what that was on my HC-49 crystal! I turned off the vrestrict
layer, and the extra went away. Didn't seem to help anyway, I had a via
(that I've since moved) encroaching into this area.
Just tried a solpad. Must be a test pad? I almost forgot to add some
test points.
It seems to get harder to find the un-routed signals at the very end.
Is there a way to make them stand out, or determine their net name?
Alan KM6VV
kilocycles wrote:
> Alan,
> It's just plain weird the way Eagle leaves detritus behind when you
> remove something, or fix a DRC error like not enough clearance between
> pads and traces. I'd like to discover a way to turn on the drill
> holes for exporting the image as a .bmp file. That must be possible,
> because some time ago I made a part, and the drill holes always showed
> in the pads on the board for that part. It also had too large a drill
> diameter for the pads, so maybe that was Eagle's way of reminding me
> of that fact.
>
> Here's some other silliness to avoid: some of the packages used for
> HC-49 crystals and other components in some of the libraries have a
> crosshatch area surrounding them. I used to manually edit out those
> areas in Photoshop until I discovered they can be turned off! They
> are on one of the layers; near the end of the list, I forget right
> now, and I'm downstairs on the laptop, not at the big machine.
>
> If you haven't discovered it yet, there is a "solpad" library. You
> can add connection points on the schematic for off-board components
> like power feeds, front-panel pots, etc. They will show up as pads on
> the board, fly-wired to whatever component on the schematic you've
> connected them to. Very useful; I use them as jumper points on
> single-sided boards as well. They can be renamed and re-valued like
> any other part on the schematic, such as "J1" "Audio_Out".
>
> Ted
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Alan Marconett <KM6VV@...> wrote:
>
>>Hi Ted,
>>
>>I looked at the provided examples, and got the diameter/drill of the
>>vias on it. .048 /.032 drill. seems to work.
>>
>>Sounds like GND@1 is working for you. A little confusing how they are
>>placed/removed. Hard to get rid of them after you've placed them!
>>Finally did ripup followed by ratsnest and DRC commands. I get a big X
>>where the via was, and it finally goes away. But all are fine now
>
> after
>
>>being replaced. DRC is good.
>>
>>What else should I play with after I pretty it up a bit?
>>
>>Alan KM6VV
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