PRINT YOUR EAGLE PCB ON A PAPER.

EAGLE PCB DESIGNING TUTORIALS FOR  BEGINNERS-3 

PRINTING IT ON THE PAPER:

In the Previous segment of this series of eagle post we had come uptil the eagle board file of the circuit, Now in this post we will go through the steps to be followed before we transfer this .brd file on a actual board.

  1)  open the board file we have designed and now we need to do some settings before we actually print this on a paper.

2)   Your .brd file would  look something like  this.

But if we take the print directly the components that are visible will also get printed on the paper and thus will cause unnecessary shorts in the circuit.To prevent this we need to eliminate the components from the brd file how do we do this???????

             

    ANSWER:

      {   I hope you remember the "LAYER" command i had explained in earlier post ,if not just scroll up and read it out for your reference.}

   

     Now open Layer command and then click on "none" and then "apply" Now you would see that the entire brd has become empty.

Now select the following layers by clicking on the number adjacent to them,the selected layer will be highlighted with a blue colour.

• TOP
• BOTTOM
• PADS
• VIAS 
  

When you are done the final brd should look like this.

{don't worry about the warning i closed my schematic by mistake so the annotation is not allowed,you may get it sometime so don't worry about it and again open the schematic}

 3)  Now there are two printing methods:

            1)Single PCB:

                                In this method we directly take the print of the file and thus have only a single PCB on a page. 

   ------->click on "file" then click "print"

and then select the following options:

•  BLACK
• SOLID

don't select other options and keep all other field as in the photo.

 {Remember to set the paper to A4 size and the scaling factor to 1 other wise the component wont fit on the PCB.}

   

             2) Multiple PCB on single PAPER 

                        In this method we can actually get multiple images on a paper of the same circuit or even two different circuit this will be useful when you are printing a number of circuit as it will save the number of pages required .

follow the below steps:

1.  EXPORT
2. IMAGE
3. GIVE A NAME AND SET THE RESOLUTION AND SELECT MONOCHROME

{Before exporting the image set the background to white so that you don't get a inverted image,To do this follow this steps:

"option"--->"user-interface"--->"Background"--->"White" }

Now open your image

 4) Now copy this image into a word file then set the paper to A4 size by placing a A4 size paper o the screen and then resize the image to required dimension.While resizing see to it that the IC base is fitting or not by just placing it on the screen.

5)Now then Copy the image and then paste it as many time you want.

{Remember the following steps:

• Set paper size to A4 by placing the A4 paper on the screen
• resize the image until it matches the component size}

 Now you are ready just go and take a print.

Hope this helps you.