i have downloaded eagle.
i only tried it some minutes but it seems less powerful than orcad which i use now.
the problem is it also doesn't keep the drill holes open for me.
you simply can edit the hpgl file to set the force, my plotter doesn't support setting the force so i
never tried this. hpgl commands are very easy (similar to cnc commands). there is much documentation on
the web.
so i see i will maybe never get it to produce open drill holes (but i would really like this).
for the moment i will stay with orcad as it inculdes pspice simulation. but when making the next simple
pcb i will try it with eagle.
one method to get the drill holes open may be to find a converter tool which converts some printer
format (pcl, ps, maybe pdf) or a plain image to a hpgl (1) file. this should be one which sets the outer
lines to fill the dark areas exactly and fills in between. i have searched such a tool quite a while,
all results i got were very, very poor, if i got a output file at all.
if anyone knows a converter please write.
the advantage of a converter is that i do get printer files (b/w) which have the holes open but i don't
get plotter files.
thanks for the tip with eagle.
regards
stefan
12.05.2003 18:18:54, Ned Konz <
ned@...> wrote:
>On Monday 12 May 2003 07:37 am, Larry Battraw wrote:
>> Yes (in Eagle). I'm using it with a HP 7550A and it works great.
>> The only missing option you can't set is the force used; speed,
>> pen width, and pen are all available settings.
>
>You can edit what gets sent to the printer/plotter if you want, as I
>recall. At least in the Gerber and drill output, there are files with
>specifications of how to output the files.
>
>You could just change the HPGL code for the force in that file.
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