User Guide

Appendix
Listsusefuladditionalinformationandexplainssomeerrormessages
EAGLEpromptsincertainsituations.
Foraquick,hands-onintroduction,refertotheEAGLETutorial.
Pleasereadthetutorialforabetterunderstandingbeforeworkingwith
themanual.
Anybodywhohasalreadybeenworkingwithapriorversionof
EAGLEisadvisedtoreadthefile UPDATE underLinuxor
UPDATE.TXT underWindows.Itcontainsadescriptionofallthedif
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ferencesfromearlierversions.Thisfileislocatedinthe eagle/doc direc
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tory.PleasereaditbeforeyoustartworkingwithEAGLE4.
Informationthatwasnotavailableorthathasbeenchangedsinceprint
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ingthismanualisalsodescribedin UPDATE or UPDATE.TXT,or,if
itexists,ina README file.
Detailed information, especially about the EAGLE command language
and the EAGLE User Language, is available on the help pages. You can
reach a basic understanding very quickly by using this manual, and you
can use the convenient search features of the help function to quickly
locatetheanswerstoparticularquestions.
1.2 TechnicalTerms
In this manual, in the help function, and in EAGLE itself we frequently
usesometechnicaltermsthatshouldbeexplainedhereinafewwords.
Airwire:
Unrouted connection on a board, displayed in the unrouted layer (=
rubberband).
AnnulusSymbol:
An isolation ring that will be drawn in a supply layer or in a copper-filled
area.
BlindVia:
A plated-through hole for changing the layer of a track which has not
been drilled through all layers in the production process of a multilayer
board.
BuriedVia:
A plated-trough hole, which has been drilled through the current layer
stack in the production process like a normal (through) via, but does
notconnectalllayersofthewholeboard.
Core: Twocopperlayersappliedtoasolidsubstrate.
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