Cadsoft EagleCad Tutorial Lesson 9

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.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Eaglecad
• electronics
• pcb
• schematics.

[GeorgeGraves]

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.

[rpcelectronics]

@GeorgeGraves Either the last or next to last video will include running the Gerber CAM.

[NoEntiendesLaOnda1]

Dude you are Fucking Awsome man..

You realy helped me out big time,

i Can't wait to make my own desing tomorrow in class :D

[adampnewsome]

Watched all your tutorials so far and I've learned a lot! Thanks so much :)

[jormakeijoveijo]

Hi Jason! Thanks for tutorial, it was very helpful. Just was wondering how to do that copper pouring -thing... :)

[TheSliekaStyle]

Is it possible to auto route all the traces on one side?

[milanjayatilaka]

Hello! Thanks for the video series, it really helps! This is a really n00b question, but what purpose do the ground planes serve and if we wanted to, could we do without them? I mean, if one were making a single sided PCB, for example. Thanks again!

[MusicAddictedGr]

hello! this is a very good tutorial and it helped me very much. but a have a question... after the autorouting all the pads are thinner than those which you placed manualy.

how can i change the width of of the tabs when i use autorouter?

thx

[cozzbp]

These videos are amazing.  Thank you so much.

[rainbowsalads]

@Matik1717 yes this is a double sided board . the top of the board is used to route traces also, the software uses the pins of the components as "vias" to get the signal onto the top and then route the trace to the place it needs to go more efficiently. If this was a 4 layer board ( 4 layers sandwiched together) the software would use those layers also. all soldering is usually done on the bottom, but the traces can be on any layer.

[TheMrHwarang]

I would like to thank you for making these videos, they have helped me to make many circuit boards. Although i would like to give you a word of advice, make your videos shorter, all of your information is good, but i feel that you are also including too much unneeded information as well. I hope that you will consider this to improve your videos. Thank you.

[skierplaterandy]

only part way in, this is an awesome series so far. just this far in is good enough to do a lot.