-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 source= http://www.piclist.com/piclist/2004/02/24/132805a.txt? Hazelwood Lyle says: >Olimex offers lots of good suggestions on their site. the time spent = >reading it is well spent. I sent them Eagle files directly. The board >quality was excellent (by my own standard anyway) and included solder mask >and silk screen. When I got my first Olimex shipment, I carried the boards in my pocket for a week and showed them to people in all sorts of settings. :-) >I am a happy Olimex customer, and expect to do more with them in the = >future. Just watch your drill sizes and understand that the silkscreen is >a bit = low-res. For myself, I don't mind paying a few extra dollars to >get extra drills = and/or getting their help fixing the silk layer. The first board was so overwhelming. A major part of choosing Olimex was that they were willing to take money and fix the small stuff, all without berating me in public. On my later boards, I made my own library parts from the original Eagle parts. It seems that there should be a place on the PICList to post our Olimex libraries. The mcintosh_to_olimex_030803.zip and mcintosh_to_olimex_20031027.zip files in http://www.jump.net/~vima/PIC have all been to Olimex, and returned boards that were pleasing. You can recover the libraries from them if you wish, using exp-project-lbr.ulp. I have a project named "local_library" and keep the modifications in there, and the original CadSoft libraries in pristine condition. >Somewhere on their site they specify exactly which layers are used from = >Eagle for top, bottom, silk, and mask. by displaying only those layers, >you should = be able to check your work before sending it off. Just after my last post, I also added the line: display none top bottom 17 18 20 21 25 -23 -27 -51 unrouted; to the BRD: section of my Eagle.scr file. This is executed when a board is loaded, so it display only the layers that Olimex will use, plus the unrouted layer. - --- Aubrey McIntosh http://www.piclist.com/member/AM-vima-Y84 PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBQDuzWgKlSw8yssF7EQKpXQCgoJMQGS0L6gvIG8OPCy8jkR8b+Q8An3lI 1akFGC+rzoqD1Xzrza48kVuG =xOK5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body