I just designed a circuit board using eagle, but am not sure how to export the file to the required gerber format. Could someone please tell me how or direct me to a tutorial that will explain it?
Thanks.
See the [[Eagle Output Tutorial](http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/PCB/eagle-output-tutorial.htm). Use the SFE-Special.cam file to generate the gerber files (using file, CAM Processor). Before you do this, you'll want to run the silk_gen.ulp (using file, run) to fix the silk screen widths. All this is described in the tutorial.WarBirdII:
Could someone please tell me how or direct me to a tutorial that will explain it?
Don](http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/PCB/eagle-output-tutorial.htm)
donblake:
See the [[Eagle Output Tutorial](http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/PCB/eagle-output-tutorial.htm). Use the SFE-Special.cam file to generate the gerber files (using file, CAM Processor). Before you do this, you'll want to run the silk_gen.ulp (using file, run) to fix the silk screen widths. All this is described in the tutorial.WarBirdII:
Could someone please tell me how or direct me to a tutorial that will explain it?Don[/quote]
Does anyone know whatever happened to the Eagle output Tutorial? I have searched and searched for a link to no avail. The link above shows a blank page.
BatchPCB.com has a link (Eagle Tutorial) that used to point to this tutorial but it now points to a larger tutorial on sparkfun.com and I couldn’t find any sign of the info that used to be available on ow to use SFE-special.CAM and silk_gen.ulp …
I was able to figure it out… but that’s cuz I’ve used it once. Anyone else would be SOL I think unless they were an Eagle guru
Michael](http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/PCB/eagle-output-tutorial.htm)
Before I started working here, I used SparkFun’s Embedded Electronics tutorial. Specifically, [page 9 for Gerber output, it’s about half way down the page. There are new cam processors there too, same as the ones we use for in house prototypes.
Hope that helps :D](Beginning Embedded Electronics - 9 - SparkFun Electronics)
I found this topic because I was trying to create gerbers from eagle.
I needed to create a gerber, so I could load it in Bronzeview and measure between two points…
Because I couldn’t work out a way to measure between two points in eagle after 2 hours of searching and trying.
Honestly. I am a commercial PCB designer and I have been using Diptrace for years.
It is cheap, and it takes 20 minutes to learn.
Creating gerbers: File->Export
Measure between two points : Just Click on the ruler icon.
This is just my personal opinion,…but anyone considering a PCB / circuit design package, try diptrace. And if you are a long term eagle user, instead of reading a turorial (???) to find out how to create gerber files (the PCB manufacturing standard) for goodness sake, download the freeware version of diptrace. It will take less time to work out how to create an entire PCB and send it off for manufacture, than it would to read a tutorial.
Use the MARK tool. Once you place a mark, relative coordinates in rectangular and polar formats will appear on the bottom status bar. You can read off your lengths and angles from there.grapefruit:
…I couldn’t work out a way to measure between two points in eagle after 2 hours of searching and trying.
In Eagle you just press the "CAM" button. In both packages you still have to set up your layers that will be exported.Creating gerbers: File->Export
I completely understand why Eagle can be frustrating to someone who is used to another design environment. Once you get the hang of it, it runs pretty smoothly and a very large portion of the hobbyist world uses it so there are lots of examples for people to follow.
-Bill