Eagle Light

[kieran]

Hi all,

How the hell does one go from a .brd file that Thorsten has in the MBHP pages, to something resembling a PCB?

Sure, I've read all the "how to make a pcb" tutes, but this is before all that. Can someone show me how to take the Eagle Light .brd and turn it into a negative ready for photo-etching. I have acrobat distiller, so providing I can print in some sort of Traces=Black mode, I should be okay..  

can someone enlighten me further please?

cheers,

kieran.

[rogic]

Hi,

I don't know if this is going to help you (I am total newbie for electronics):

-Open the .brd in Eagle

-On left menu you have icon to switch on/off visibility of 'layers' of the board

-Leave ones you need

-Export it as image

Again, I am total newbie to all this, but maybe this will help.

[kieran]

Hi,

I don't know if this is going to help you (I am total newbie for electronics):

-Open the .brd in Eagle

-On left menu you have icon to switch on/off visibility of 'layers' of the board

-Leave ones you need

-Export it as image

Again, I am total newbie to all this, but maybe this will help.

Thanks..

yeah, that's what I ended up doing.. but it was a little haphazard. I ended up with just the traces and the holes..  but i need to get the border off before etching. I've pretty much almost got it.

:)

thanks

Kieran