Cadsoft EagleCad Tutorial Lesson 8

Lesson 8 in my Eagle tutorial. In this lesson, we continue on with creating a board design and start some manual routing. We also learn about the Ratsnest tool for calculating shortest runs.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Eaglecad
• electronics
• schematic

[MonkeyFCoconut]

Ok, now after my last comment on your previous tutorials about the grid... looks like you should really be moving your components based on the location of the holes, not the center of the part. Hopefully Eagle can snap component pads to the grid... then you won't have to keep messing with the grid settings.

[rpcelectronics]

@MonkeyFCoconut I understand that my method is a bit unorthodox, but I am used to it now and it works for me.

[H3ADSH0TER]

I am doing an Eagle work, but my project has more parts and connections than this one. Is it ok to just join the circuit like if it was in schematic and place the parts in a random way?

[rpcelectronics]

@H3ADSH0TER That is hard to answer without knowing what you are designing and without seeing a schematic. In general the answer would be NO. Almost all electronics, in some way need to be arranged in a logical way. This may be as complicated as keeping runs short to reduce the chance of noise induction or simple as logically placing parts so your runs are simple and do not have to run all over the board to get from point A to point B.

[samanthms123]

man.. awesome tutorials.. !! :) 5/5 stars

but where the heck is lesson 9 ??

[rpcelectronics]

I JUST got back tonight after being out of town for two weeks. I will be working on and posting parts 9 and 10 this weekend.

Sorry for the wait.

[ECESW]

Thanks, this is very useful.

[exscape]

@snipersquad100 See Options -> User Interface. You can change the colors there.

[wowzerscheeseball]

@rrlamichhane i noticed that too.

good catch!

o__0

[wowzerscheeseball]

thank you you are awesome!!!!!!!!!

[snipersquad100]

why is my board window white and not black like yours?

[rhobz2792]

wew

[rrlamichhane]

at 5:34, you said 'top' instead of 'bottom', and thanks for the video bro, Good job!

[vasbetontalpfa]

I've seen all the tutorial, and then I try to buil a pcb. But when I try to draw route dont happens anything! And I dont look the thin yellow lines between the pins that I connected to eachother in the shematic. Whats my mistake?