On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:55 PM, craigl2@... wrote:
> I have just started learning to use Eagle and have only made a couple simple single sided PCBs. The last time I made a PCB was 40 years ago.
Sounds like we're in the same boat. I made a bunch of PCBs back in the early 1980s using manual layout and resist-ink pen. I migrated into software and did not get back into electronics again until just a few years ago. So far I have been building everything on protoboard, and after discovering how easy it really is to make PCBs with toner transfer and CuCl I'm wishing I had gone down that road sooner.
> To use the CAM processor you would have to tell it to include layer 116 in the output file. For home use I am not sure what advantage, if any, the CAM processor provides. Perhaps someone with more experience can inform both of us of the advantages and disadvantages of each method..
Yup. I enabled layer 116 in the CAM processor and it did not render. Using the "print" option is actually easier, so unless there are no downsides to that (I can't see any) that is how I'll be doing things.
-p.