Cadsoft EagleCad Tutorial Lesson 6

Lesson 6 in my Eagle tutorial. In this lesson, we start actually creating a board design with the schematic we created in the last several lessons.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• eagle
• cad
• electronics
• circuit boards

[jagwoods]

When one is defining a new part how does one manage devices with more than one pin per signal ie GND or VCC on several pins?

[rpcelectronics]

The short answer is use GND for the first and then for each subsequent, use GND@2, GND@3 and so on. The @ will show up in the part editor, but when used in the real schematic, the @ symbol will not show.

Once I am done with this tutorial, I plan to start a new series on creating custom parts. It will be done much like this series is, but I need to figure out a logical way to break the parts up.

[PatMan0183]

I'm looking forward to Lesson 7. I watched 3 through 6. I was bummed that 7 wasnt made yet. I have always had a hard time deciding on where to route all the traces.

[rpcelectronics]

I am working on lesson 7. I have been a bit busy on the company side, so I have to get video production in when I have some spare time. Its coming soon.

[pogi09282805724]

@rpcelectronics its been two years man! haha

[94vujke]

Hey can you tell me how do you make black background when you switch your circuit to a PCB layout? Please reply.

[MonkeyFCoconut]

I see you like a metric grid, even though it looks like most of your parts pins are defined on a standard grid. Typically I would set the grid based on the majority of the parts to make routing nice. Then change the grid and finalize the board outline in metric, if I had to. Don't know if this routing to pins off grid will be an issue in Eagle or not. Typically in OrCad it means a connection is not made at a 90 or 45 deg angle, so you can't drag the track later to a new position.

[MonkeyFCoconut]

Very nice beginner tutorial serial for Eagle. I'm an experienced OrCad user who's looking to find some tools to use to create open hardware designs. Eagle seems to be the defacto standard in that respect, so I'm learning, but I'm pretty frustrated about some of the idiosyncrasies of Eagle. Anyone know of a shortcut file for Eagle that makes it act like OrCad??

[ray92787]

when I created my board a white board showed up not black what does that mean ?

[KX36]

You'll find that part outlines and pins fit the grid a lot better if you use mils instead of mm for the grid, since that's what most parts are designed as.

[fabiovsroque]

I've being watching your tutorials, they are very useful, great job. I have a question: when I change to board editor, I see the components, the wires and the origin mark, but I can't see the board limits. Why is that? With out the board limits I can't set the size of the board or place the components corretly.

[MatrixOfDynamism]

thanks a lot

[wendoy]

slight problem, when I click board, there is no board outline?

[renekenshin6573]

Sir Jason thank you very much for this great and wonderful tutorial you posted here, it really helps newbies like me to fabricate our own pcb's. I thought i would never learn to use pcb software tools like this one because i tried others already but it was too complicated for me, especially without a video tutorial like yours. Again thank you very much, your one of the best things that happen on Youtube :)