Homebrew PCBs

Piers,

Why are you creating a pdf ?   You can print directly from eagle.

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--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Piers Goodhew <piers@...> wrote:

From: Piers Goodhew <piers@...>
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Eagle (Mac) print quality
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 11:36 AM






 




    
                  

On 05/09/2009, at 7:06 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote:



> Interesting problem.

>

> Try loading the eagle PDF into inkscape and have a look at it.



Well, if it looks fine in Illustrator (and Preview) I'm pretty  

confident the PDF does not have whatever it is that the direct to- 

printer. What I did notice only when I'd uploaded the images (made  

much more obvious by the scanner's auto-sharpen) is that every fill is  

offset a little to the lower left to the outlines ...



I did try eagle -> PDF -> some other app -> Print and ... the smear is  

gone, although something else has happened to drill holes - I'm lucky  

enough to have Illustrator, I think I'll be sticking to that route!



> I make solder paste stencils by printing the tcream layer in eagle.   

> Next I load it into inkscape and then switch to the outline view.  

> The files is saved as a SVG and then cut on a critcut machine.

>

> A PCB like the one in your example can be easily cut.  I am still  

> working on finer pitch parts like TQFP.



That would be nice, but it also etched just fine, my first flirtation  

with 10mil traces and running things under SMD parts. Infuriatingly, i  

managed to break a trace with the drill chuck ...



PG




 

      

    
    
	
	 
	
	








	


	
	


      

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