Hi All,
I’m running Eagle 5.11, and until now all the drill sizes that come standard with the program have met my needs. I have a new component that requires a fairly precise mounting hole in the PCB, and so I want to add a new drill to the available drill sizes in Eagle. I haven’t been able to find any info in the manual about how to do this, nor have I found an obvious way to do it just poking around the software.
Ideas?
Thanks,
John
There are many ways to change the drill size but the quickest way is when you place a new pad, highlight the value in the “drill” dropdown box and type in what ever value you want. The units for size is related to whatever your current grid is.
http://home.comcast.net/~wahconah98/circuits/drill.png
The manual and numerous tutorials on the internet explain how to do this quite clearly.
-Bill
Leon,
Man, a GOOGLE search, why didn’t I think of that :shock: ??? Sure, there are a lot of round-about ways to change drill sizes in Eagle (which are detailed in many of the Google hits), but what I want to do is add some specific drills to the drill ‘palette’ available in Eagle. The standard drill palette is fine for most of what I do, but I’d like to customize it with some of the ‘odd’ drill sizes that I occasionally.
Thanks,
John
Hi Bill,
Thanks for that tip - that does ultimately allow to do what I need! I was hoping, however, to be able to add the drill sizes that are important to me to the drill ‘palette’, so I don’t have to look them up/type them in each time. I’d like to do it once, check it, and then know it’s right from then on.
Thanks,
John
In that case you should be able to edit your “eagle.scr” file to include the following line:
SET WIDTH_MENU 0.127mm 0.1778mm 0.2032mm 0.254mm 0.508mm 0.050IN 0.1IN
You can change the values to what you need and use whatever units you like.
-Bill
