On Monday 12 April 2004 06:44 pm, William Chops Westfield scribbled:
> You COULD scale all the Eagle libraries down by a factor of 5, and then
> lay out up to a 15x20 inch board, and adjust the gerber output in some
> sort of gerber editor...  I ALMOST did that for a board that was big
> but had very few components on it, but sanity prevailed...
> It would be Wrong, though...  Even the full-scale version of Eagle is
> pretty cheap compared to most PCB packages.

Wow, this is a pretty cool idea.  Perhaps I could just design in mm to ma=
ke=20
live easier, but generate the gerber as if it were in inches.  That would=
=20
make editing almost "natural".  I really must try this sometime.


> Rather than attaching multiple boards with wires, you might be able to
> have them terminate at 'well defined' interfaces at the edges of the
> individual parts, and then merge them with some sort of gerber tool...

I actually tried this once when I needed to layout a board for a "head un=
it"=20
for my car mp3 player.  It was a major hassle, even for something simple =
as=20
that, but perhaps this was more so since it was one circuit and alignment=
 of=20
holes between boards was critical.  Might be easier for multiple=20
interconnected circuits, though.

Cheers,
-Neil.

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