Eagle Tutorial Lesson 9
April 29th, 2010 |
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Lesson 9 in my Eagle tutorial. In this lesson, we continue on with running traces, but this time we use the autorouter to do the rest of the job for us. We will also do a copper pour aka groundplane and go through the simple settings to make that happen. I realize I ran long on this one. I wanted to make it short and it ended up being the longest video in the series. In the next lesson, I will explain the Ratsnest fill a little better.












Comments (21)
April 29th, 2010 at 15:55
@David01132
The red trace is at the top side of the board while blue trace is on the bottom side. So no actual connection.
April 29th, 2010 at 16:35
@David01132 It’s on the other side of the PCB, so it’s alright. Blue wires = back side. Red wire = top side.
April 29th, 2010 at 17:04
Not sure off the top of my head, but I’m pretty sure that you can set up those parameters in the autorouter menus. I’m not on my PC with eagle, but click through the tabs in the autorouter window. There should be an option there for “rout traces on x layer only” or something.
April 29th, 2010 at 17:07
ok but what if I just want traces on the bottom?
April 29th, 2010 at 17:46
Oh, that trace that was overlapping (the red trace that was crossing the blue trace) was actually crossing on the TOP of the board, while the initial blue trace that was routed by hand was placed on the bottom.
April 29th, 2010 at 18:40
question,
after the auto route, there were overlapping traces at C1. That cant be good?
April 29th, 2010 at 19:34
Wow, this one was great!
Never even occurred to me that? the GND copper pours most times should be both top & bottom.
Thanks much Jason.
April 29th, 2010 at 20:18
Teacher give us a lesson!!! Lesson 10
April 29th, 2010 at 20:35
Jason,
“Lesson 10! Lesson 10!…” ;^)
Serious question: MY 5.6.0 copy of Eagle CAD does NOT have the same Library yours does!
No Resistor subfolder under resistors, nor Diode subfolder under diodes. And no Resistor-US nor Diode-US either.
Could you please touch on how to assemble all the libraries? (I think I noticed you have SparkFun’s. Worth a mention of them and your other faves in passing?)
Thanks for a Great Gift to the world! (and me here in Wis Con sin.
DT
April 29th, 2010 at 21:20
As I first saw Eagle, I thought ´How do those guys do this?` No I`m close to know it.
Thank You.
April 29th, 2010 at 21:41
I write from South America to congratulate you on your excellent work on the tutorial
RENZO
April 29th, 2010 at 22:04
Thanks man this is helping me allot! I would like to see the 10th part to. Could you also show how you can make this PCB work with a single layer?
April 29th, 2010 at 22:29
Thanks Jason. The tutorial is great. I use PADS and Altium at work, but wanted a hobby type of program for home for my side stuff. Could you go over how to create your own parts in a library? Also, will you be going into masks and silk? Thanks! DJW
April 29th, 2010 at 22:45
We would like 10th part
April 29th, 2010 at 23:22
Really like all these tutorials and we all like 10th part ;D
i would like a video about 3D views but maybe later eh?
April 30th, 2010 at 00:14
@GeorgeGraves Either the last or next to last video will include running the Gerber CAM.
April 30th, 2010 at 00:50
Can’t wait for the next one – very good. I was putting of learning eagle, and your videos got me up and going in one night. Now – am I brave enough to send a off to be made? Or are you going to cover that part of the gerber files too? If so I’ll gladly WAIT!!!
Thanks again.
April 30th, 2010 at 01:32
Excellent – very well presented
April 30th, 2010 at 01:39
awesome.. i always thought that eagle is a difficult program to learn, however, you made look like a piece of cake..
thanks a lot
April 30th, 2010 at 02:22
isn’t leasson 10 ready yet? 10x 4 all
April 30th, 2010 at 02:46
I’m a programmer, and a noob circuit fanatic, thanks for the tutorials on Eagle. They are quite helpful! Any chances of you just doing some electronic tutorials some time? Thanks for your time and help!
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