Well you need to have the gerbers ready before you start the viewer
application...the wheel file would be the aperture file. Usually there is a
file for each layer on the board plus an aperture file (sometimes the
apertures are defined in the gerber file so the aperture file is redundant)
and a drill file which is not a gerber file but Excellon or somesuch. I
don't know how or if Eagle can generate gerbers. I'm using CircuitMaker2000.
/\/\/\/*=Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "David P. Harris" <dpharris@TELUS.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [ot]: eagle board editor question


> OK, but I can't generate the Gerbers.  Asks for wheel files and all-sorts.
What
> a newby I am!
> David
>
> Martin Peach wrote:
>
> > You do File->Import and pick the folder with your gerbers in it. It took
me
> > a few tries to get all the setup right because there are lots of
options.
> > You can either print to a printer or do a Print Screen and paste into
> > Clipboard viewer and save as a bmp from there, then use GIMP or
Photoshop to
> > scale the image...
> > /\/\/\/*=Martin
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David P. Harris" <dpharris@TELUS.NET>
> > To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ot]: eagle board editor question
> >
> > > How do you use this.  I can't even figure out how to do the CAM
> > processing.
> > > Can you outline the steps you take.  For example, which output device
do I
> > use -
> > > my guess: Gerber_auto_23.
> > > David
> > >
> > > Martin Peach wrote:
> > >
> > > > GC-Prevue from Graphicode at http://www.graphicode.com/ works better
for
> > me.
> > > > It allows you to print any layer or combination of layers including
the
> > > > drill holes so you could do a single board 'manually'.
> > > > /\/\/\/*=Martin
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Edson Brusque" <ebrusque@TERRA.COM.BR>
> > > > To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> > > > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:47 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [ot]: eagle board editor question
> > > >
> > > > > Hello rad0,
> > > > >
> > > > > > If you're still around, how does a gerber file orient itself?  I
> > mean,
> > > > if
> > > > > > you
> > > > > > have made a board in eagle somewhere off the origin, then
produced a
> > > > > > gerber file for your board,
> > > > > > what's the gist of how a gerber file orients all the parts
together
> > on
> > > > the
> > > > > > board??
> > > > >
> > > > >     please, download ViewMate (www.lavenir.com) it's a free Gerber
> > file
> > > > > viewer and will thought some things. Also, it's very usefull when
> > you're
> > > > > trying to make gerber output files with Eagle.
> > > > >
> > > > >     Best regards,
> > > > >
> > > > >     Brusque
> > > > >
> > > > > -----------------------------------
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