>1)
>    I'm looking for one small eagle tip. How in the heck do you create a power
>    bus? I've used a few of the numerous tutorials
>    out there to layout my first board (a 16F628, 3 resistors, and an
>    LED). But I'm clueless as to how to create a physical representation
>    of the power supply buses. Just draw a thick line?

You did RTFM the manual ?? ;-]]]  Actually I never could get that to
behave as I expected it. As long as your power connections have the same
name they are treated as a bus. Use the top eyeball icon to click on and
see what the names are it also highlights the line so you can see if its not
all named the same. If its not use the Name icon under the X (delete) click
on the line and simply type the same name in. Then check to see if it picks
it up properly. I found I had about 5 little sections initially on my power bus
all with different names.  When you route you just need to change the width.

>2) More Eagle. Is there any way to force the autorouter to generate a single
>    sided board only? Even after forcing the cost of the top side to 99,
>    sometimes it will still generate a top side trace or two.

Tools-Auto- set layer 1 to N/A

>3) Any standards as to line thickness and pad size for novice boardmakers.

There are a few charts on-line that show traces widths to use for the current
through a trace on a FR4/1oz board.

>4) Final Eagle. Has anyone tried any tricks for creating larger boards by
>    segmenting and cut/pasting the smaller boards into a larger board?

The free proggy is limited to size so if you go over it won't let you route
or place
parts outside the limit.


Dave

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