Just for reference, this is a carrier board for nixie tubes. There are five such, and five drivers. The size is close enough to within limitations of the free version of Eagle, so that’s not my concern.
It has a 15/2 male edge connector, which is where I am getting kind of hung up on. I’ve found a library with a 44 pin edge connector with the specs I need (spacing, etc), so I just edited it down to 30 pins. Just to see if I could wrap my head around things, I added it to a new project and twiddled with the dimension layer outline to be vaguely similar to the original.
But when I press DRC check, it throws an error on every single connector:
So I’m not sure what I am doing wrong. I’ve looked at all the layers in the free version of ViewMate (10.1), but see nothing that smacks me in the face.
And for completeness sake, I’ve attached a zip with the library (it contains a few other parts I’ve noodled with, but it should be fairly obvious which is the edge connector), the nearly-empty schematic with the connector, as well as the board.
This is just a guess at a fix, but try clearing the errors, change your distance (in the DRC menu) to zero and re-run DRC. I have a feeling DRC is complaining that you are too close to the edge. I think by default, distance is set to 40 mil.
I have spent about 10 hours sifting through all of my libraries looking for a 22/44 edge card library with .1 inch spacing between the fingers. Any chance you could either give me the name or the original library or upload the library here for me…
Dillon:
I have spent about 10 hours sifting through all of my libraries looking for a 22/44 edge card library with .1 inch spacing between the fingers. Any chance you could either give me the name or the original library or upload the library here for me…
Thanks
Dillon
So you just spent 10 hours looking for something that would take you 5 minutes to recreate.
I think you need to work on your time management skills.
Well first of all I do not know how to create the part and find eagle cad less than easy to figure out. I am an electrical engineer with 50 years experience however it does not include drawing PC boards on computers. In my day we did it using tape or using pen and ink and even then we turned the PC board person lose on it.
Basically I dont have the tools to reverse engineer parts and if I did I would never get anything else done… thats why we share expertise and parts.
Dillon:
Well first of all I do not know how to create the part and find eagle cad less than easy to figure out. I am an electrical engineer with 50 years experience however it does not include drawing PC boards on computers. In my day we did it using tape or using pen and ink and even then we turned the PC board person lose on it.
Basically I dont have the tools to reverse engineer parts and if I did I would never get anything else done… thats why we share expertise and parts.
I promise you you can be up and running making your own PCB footprints in well under 10 hours. I'd expect you to have a decent grasp within an hour, given your experience in the industry.
