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Can someone direct me to a good guide to the Eagle software package. It looks like it is very capable, but the information provided by eagle leaves a lot to be desired. I'm looking for really basic information - for example, are the red circuit lines the component side or the solder side? I can't find the answer to that anywhere in the manual, tutorial, or help files. I think I can figure out how to establish the design rules, but if someone could save me a few hours digging around in the software it would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Earl T. Hackett, Jr. wrote:

> Can someone direct me to a good guide to the Eagle software package. It looks like it is very capable, but the information provided by eagle leaves a lot to be desired. I'm looking for really basic information - for example, are the red circuit lines the component side or the solder side? I can't find the answer to that anywhere in the manual, tutorial, or help files. I think I can figure out how to establish the design rules, but if someone could save me a few hours digging around in the software it would be appreciated.
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Red is top, click the layers button and look at the color guide. Download
the seperate 4.xx PDF tutorial from the site and go through it. Expect about a
weeks worth of spare time to do that, well worth it. The old tutorials sucked
but from 4.xx it's been much better.

The program is very good once you have learned your way around. Heck there
are many other viewing programs I wish would use the mouse for zoom after using
Eagle..

Alan

--- "Earl T. Hackett, Jr." <hahacketetocomcastet>
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Alan King wrote:

> Earl T. Hackett, Jr. wrote:
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>>Can someone direct me to a good guide to the Eagle software package. It looks like it is very capable, but the information provided by eagle leaves a lot to be desired. I'm looking for really basic information - for example, are the red circuit lines the component side or the solder side? I can't find the answer to that anywhere in the manual, tutorial, or help files. I think I can figure out how to establish the design rules, but if someone could save me a few hours digging around in the software it would be appreciated.

Anyone besides myself using/used PCB which is a opensource
layout program?

http://pcb.sourceforge.net


--
uhmgawa@... www.gnu.org

AHH! I got it... Now to find the layer button ;-)

Thanks again...

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Look under the top, it's probably right under the middle layer...

Robert
:P




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AHH! I got it... Now to find the layer button ;-)

Thanks again...

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I don't use Eagle any more, don't remember the options, but check if your
PCB is set to single side. If it is, don't bother trying to find the bottom
layer.

Robert
:)


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AHH! I got it... Now to find the layer button ;-)

Thanks again...


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