exporting eagle pcb as png

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Hi all,

Is there any way to make curve route / trace lines in eagle pcb smooth?

Please see attached image, some edges are straight, while curves edges are rugged.

Thanks in advance

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Photoshop. But I don’t see a reason why rough edges would make a difference…

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What do your Gerbers look like when the screen shows this?

I’d also be more concerned about the middle track pad entry than the edges referred to -I suspect that they would actually be smooth in Gerber land.

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I think the term you might be looking for is anti-aliasing; Eagle doesn’t anti-alias when exporting to bitmap formats. You’d have to either export to one of the vector formats and import that, or export at a much higher DPI, then scale it down in your graphics editor; note that this may make orthogonal lines a bit blurry as well without proper subpixel hinting in the graphics editor.

Unless it’s just for display purposes, you wouldn’t want things anti-aliased, though. If you were to print a bitmap with anti-aliased edges, the printer will have to use various levels of dithering… which is not what you want when printing for e.g. home-made PCBs.

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I also just noticed that the traces are not technically connected to the pads. Eagle is going to throw errors when running the DRC.

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RiiC:
Is there any way to make curve route / trace lines in eagle pcb smooth?

Hi, RiiC. Did you get around to making gerber files and viewing them? Sparkfun has a [tutorial on now to export gerber files. Then you can use this [online gerber view to look at them. Also, if you upload a .zip file of your project, me or someone else can take a look at what you have.](http://www.gerber-viewer.com/)](Using EAGLE: Board Layout - SparkFun Learn)