User Guide

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Selecttheoutputlayersbyclickingtheappropriatelayernumber.
Clickthemenu Layer/Deselectall tofirstuncheckallthelayers.
Layer/showselected displaysonlythecurrentlyselectedlayers.
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Setdevice-specificparameters(aperturewheeletc.).
SelectingtheGerberdevicedriver,forexample,invokesthe Wheel
field.Hereyouhavetoinputthepathtoyouraperturelist.Ifyou
wanttogeneratedrilldata(devices:Excellon,SM1000,SM3000),
EAGLEasksforadrilltableinthe Rack field(seealsopage 210,
Drilldata).
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Set flag options.
Mirror:
Mirrorstheoutput
Rotate:
Rotatestheoutputby90degrees.
Upsidedown:
Rotatestheoutputby180degrees.Whencombinedwith Rotate,
thedrawingisrotatedbyatotalof270degrees.
Pos.Coords.:
Offsetstheoutputsothatnegativecoordinatesareeliminatedand
thedrawingisreferencedtotheoriginoftheoutputdevice.Thisis
advisablefordeviceswhichgenerateerrormessagesifnegativeco
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ordinatesaredetected.Thedefaultis on.
Quickplot:
Draftoutputwhichshowsonlytheoutlinesofobjects.Thisop-
tionisnotavailableforalldevices.
Optimize:
Activatestheoptimizationofthedrawingsequenceforplotters.
FillPads:
Padswillbefilled.Thisoptionisonforgeneratingmanufacturing
data.
Devicesofthe generic type(seeeagle.def),forexamplePostScript,
allowtodeactivatethisoption.Thedrillholesforpadswillbevisi
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bleontheoutput.
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Selectsheet(forschematicsonly):
Usethe Sheet comboboxasfarastheschematicconsistsofmore
thanonepage.
9.6 Namesofthe OutputFiles
The extensions for the output files given in the table on page 212 are
only suggestions. If you are defining a job for Gerber data, which gener
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ates all the files with these extensions, the information file (*.gpi) will be
overwritten with each succeeding section. If you want to supply infor
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mationfilestoyourphotoplottingservice,proceedasfollows:
Foroutput,entereither name.xx#or .xx#.
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