Quick guide on exporting PCB designs from Eagle and importing theminto FlatCAM. This guide was made with Eagle version 7.2.0 Light andFlatCAM 8.2.
Open the CAM Processor. In Eagle, open Board view. Click the 'CAM' button or choose 'File-CAM. Select File » Open » Job, and in your default EAGLE cam folder select the excellon.cam file, then select Open. You'll now have a single Generate drill data tab available, which will grab the data from layers 44 Drills and 45 Holes, just what you need. Download Managers Web Browsers Messaging Software Antivirus Software Video Players Image Editing Software Video Editing Software File Compression Software PDF Readers Audio Players GIS Software Webcam Software Screencasting Software DJ Software Browser Plug-ins Video Converters 2D Animation Software Gaming Clients File Managers BitTorrent. To open CAMProcessor click File CAM Processor. OR alternatively, in Control Panel's main menu File New CAM Job. Thenselect PCB board: go to file selecta job fileexecute the job. To load a PCB design file. Figure 1: Eagle PCB software CAM Processor. Start CAM processor from Eagle software as shown in Figure 1.
Most designs start with schematics of your circuit:
Then by clicking on File→Switch to board, the board editoris opened and you can complete your layout:
To export Gerbers, go to File→CAM Processor in the board editor,and choose the settings shown in the figure below. Include the copperlayer that you want to export and the Pads and Vias layers. Choosea proper name for your output file and click Process Job. Repeatfor each desired layer.
For drill files, go to File→CAM Processor again and select the settingsin the figure below. Do not provide an extension to the drill file name.Click on Process Job to export.
We are done with Eagle. Now let's move on to FlatCAM.
Eagle uses Trailing Zeros in its Excellon number format but does notproperly report this format in the Excellon file. To tell FlatCAM touse this format by default set this system option excellon_zeros to Tby using the set_sys command in the Shell Command Line Interface as shown below:
The command get_sysexcellon_zeros is optional and only lets yousee what the excellon_zeros option was set to originally.
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Then by clicking on File→Switch to board, the board editoris opened and you can complete your layout:
To export Gerbers, go to File→CAM Processor in the board editor,and choose the settings shown in the figure below. Include the copperlayer that you want to export and the Pads and Vias layers. Choosea proper name for your output file and click Process Job. Repeatfor each desired layer.
For drill files, go to File→CAM Processor again and select the settingsin the figure below. Do not provide an extension to the drill file name.Click on Process Job to export.
We are done with Eagle. Now let's move on to FlatCAM.
Eagle uses Trailing Zeros in its Excellon number format but does notproperly report this format in the Excellon file. To tell FlatCAM touse this format by default set this system option excellon_zeros to Tby using the set_sys command in the Shell Command Line Interface as shown below:
The command get_sysexcellon_zeros is optional and only lets yousee what the excellon_zeros option was set to originally.
Note
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Changes to system options are persistent. They will remainset to the given value when you restart. Microsoft visio 2019 free. download full version.
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This completes all the adjustments. Now simply open the Gerbers and Excellonfiles that you exported from Eagle.
