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Re: Newbie PCB Question

2006-03-28 by aggie_672000

Apprecite your reply but still don't understand the limitation? You 
say 1 board per project, can you have more than 1 project or when 
you want a new board do you have to easre the old board to make room 
for the new? Hopefully you see my question, what is the actual 
mechanics of making more than 1 board? Can you have more than 1 
board saved at a time? Understand what a board is, but what is 
Eagles definition of a "project"?

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Hart 
<tech_guru@...> wrote:
>
> You can make one board per project. I have designed several boards 
in Eagle, 
> some have made it to copper, others didn't but you can create as 
many as you 
> want, as long as you keep the design to 1 board per project. You 
can redo the 
> board as many times as you like, as long as there is only one 
board file for 
> the project. Eagle does let you open files larger than you can 
create with 
> the freeware version, but you simply can't edit them.
> On Friday 24 March 2006 09:58 pm, aggie_672000 wrote:
> > Just finished my first toner transfer board which has made me 
think
> >  maybe a CNC routed board would be better. Am retired on a 
minimum
> >  budget so like free software:
> >
> >  Saw a lot of people use Eagle, but afterlooking at the Eagle 
website
> >  wondered if the free version is only good for making one board 
or did
> >  I misread? With my learning curve it would take 10-20 attempts 
to get
> >  my first board.
> >
> >  The PCB's I am interested in making at present are predrawn in 
a PDF
> >  file for toner transfer. Is it possible to modify these for 
milling?
> >
> >  After I get a drawing in the right format for milling, what 
program is
> >  used to generate G code etc.? At present am using A9CAD to make
> >  drawing, ACE to convert to g code, then Mach3 to control my 
router.
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