Cadsoft EagleCAD Tutorial - Layer Manipulation

[cd4600]

Also I wanted to bring to your attention a cheap board house called IteadStudio, I heard about it from Dave Jones, who does the eevblog, maybe you'll find it useful! Thanks again for all these excellent quality spoken tutorials!

[rpcelectronics]

@cd4600 Thank you for the board house suggestion.  I am going to check them out!

[cd4600]

Hi Jason, great video series, can't tell you how much I appreciate it! This video touches on a huge issue in Eagle, at least for me, how does one design an odd-shaped board? I mean, if I want to send to a board house a round board, do I simply draw in the "dimension" layer a circle with the exact radius and center? And another big thing, if I define a circle as the shape, can I make a copper pour on that, and how? Are crazy shapes possible for boards (bear shaped, star shaped etc.)? HUGE THANKS!

[recover89]

Exactly what is the difference between the stop layers and the cream layers? Thanks.

[angelos714]

Thanks for the video. You re the one that helped me figure out eagle.

But i have 1 question that i was hoping you can help me with.

What if i need to cross over a tracer and there is no other way around this but to cross through it. How do i do this without shortening out the tracer that goes through the other tracer.

So in other words How do i either go under or over a tracer if its in the way.?

Thanks.

[rpcelectronics]

@angelos714 On the schematic, you will need to determine which "wire" is associated with that trace. Then, split it and place a single through hole round pad on each end of the wire you just split. You will now have to place these two through hole pads on the board, one on each side of the trace you need to jump over. When you go to build the board, solder in a jumper to connect these two pads, to complete the trace.

[angelos714]

@rpcelectronics Thanks.:) So it cannot not be done through a different layer.?

[rpcelectronics]

@angelos714 Oh, I thought you were limited to one layer. If that is NOT the case, then with two layers, just use vias when hand routing the trace to go to the bottom layer, under the trace and then via back to the top layer.

[MatrixOfDynamism]

@angelos714 what is cross over a tracer and what does tracer mean?

[angelos714]

@MatrixOfDynamism Tracers are what connects 2 parts together.

[MatrixOfDynamism]

@angelos714 where is it on the video?

[Lazereer]

@MatrixOfDynamism Its the Copper tracer. In other words the Wires if you were not using a PCB and doing it free hand,.

The tool is called the Wire tool.