Here are the settings that I normally use in eagle. I will update this document on-the-fly.

  • Routing settings:
    • Trace 8 mils (6 mils - advanced)
    • Hole 12 mils (10 drill 18 dia - advanced)
    • Set grid to 1 mils and alt grid to 0.5 mils for routing
    • Set grid to 10 mils and alt grid to 5 mils for changing board outline
  • Ripup
    • ripup @; to clear Ratsnest
    • ripup ; to clear all routing
  • Zoom unrouted. File -> Run ULP -> zoom-unrouted.ulp

  • Export library -> Run ULP -> export-lbr.ulp

  • Centroids file -> Run ULP -> mountsmd.ulp

  • BOM file -> Run ULP -> bom.ulp

  • Move a single layer
    • ‘display none <100>’ [100 is the layer number]
    • select the layer to move
    • ‘display last’ to show the other layers
    • then move that layer
  • Copper pour - take a look at this tutorial from sparkfun

  • Import bitmap file -> Run ULP -> import-bmp.ulp
    • Pixels get converted to mils.
  • Text
    • If the board size is 0.5 inch x 1.0 inch - use, text size - 24, text weight - 18%, vector
    • Using Normalize Text ULP. File -> Run ULP -> normalize-text.ulp (text size - 30, text thickness - 3 mils)
  • Signature

    wearS v1 yasser.khan @stanford.edu 2019-04-03’

Last modified: 2019-04-04