In the end, you must work with it. Eagle V5 is a bit better than V4
(what with clicking on items to edit them), but still not for me.
Who knows, maybe you are the one user Eagle was actually written for?
Most PCB manufacturers publish the specifications you are looking for
on their webpage, it might be worthwhile looking at different
manufacturers to get a feeling for this. There's a number of other
things to mind, like distance between drill holes, distance between
drill and edge, distance between copper and edge, minimum width of
traces, solderstop, silkscreen, tolerances, ...
A lot of rules to observe for a perfect trouble-free PCB, even more if
you add production requirements to actually stuff the boards. The good
thing is most of the rules are just for perfect results or to make the
life of the PCB manufacturer easy, many of them can be broken and you
will still get working boards. But strictly speaking you would need to
know and mind all of them to guarantee useful PCBs.
A good PCB supplier will ask you if something could mean trouble.
An average PCB supplier will just produce with the files and say it is
your fault when it ends up faulty.
A bad PCB supplier will change things around as he pleases, without
informing you.
ST
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:55 PM, <christiansen_alex@...> wrote:
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> thank you both to you and Leon for reply and a good laugh..
> This is helping a lot,as I better know what I can expect and what I can ask for at the manufacturer..
> I have tried several programs like T3000 and orcad .. Orcad seem weird to me.. :) each time ..
> alex
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