Hello. I am new to this forum and am hving trouble trying to get the sfe-gerb274x.cam to copy from your tutorial to my eagle directory. All I get is a text file when I click on the link. Don’t know how to make it work. Also Eagle 6.0 has a built in Ger274x.cam file, and I can sem to get that to work either. Not enough instructions on the tutorial on how to fill in all the blanks that come up when you click on the cam tab. I am opened to suggestions on how to resolve these issues.
Mas11
Try right-clicking on the link to the sfe-gerb274x.cam file and save the file somewhere (like the cam/ directory wherever you installed Eagle). Once it’s saved, I think you can just follow the instructions in the tutorial:
Run the CAM processor in Eagle
File->Open->Job
Load sfe-gerb274x.cam
Click “Process Job”
That should be all you need to do, though I’m not sure why you would have trouble with the existing .cam file since I’ve never tried that.
I downloaded and used the sfe-gerb274x.cam processor, but the text from my _tsilk layer doesn’t seem to be making it into the Gerber file.
Are there any settings on my text or CAM job that I need to change to get the text to show up?
[Note that I went ahead and ordered v0.1 of my board anyway, but even after uploading to Batch PCB the text is MIA.
Thanks,
Tom Sayles
Tom,
When you open the CAM processor with the sfe-gerb274x.cam job, there will be a tab for “Top Silkscreen.” In the scroll box on the right, scroll to the bottom and make sure layer 121 _tsilk is highlighted. Do the same for your Bottom Silkscreen.
This assumes that you actually have elements in your _tsilk layer which Eagle library parts don’t use by default. Sparkfun provides a ULP file called silk_gen.ulp which takes the default silkscreen layers and corrects their size while moving it to the _tsilk and _bsilk layers.
-Bill