On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> decide whether you will use a board house that accepts eagle .brd
> directly. If it does, don't bother with gerbering.

There are a number of resizings that can happen during Eagle's CAM
output (such as deciding whether to round up or round down drill
sizes, for instance) that I'm not entirely sure I'd trust a board
house to make for me.  Also, any number of Eagles ULPs to do things
like resize silkscreen line widths are likely to leave their new
data on a layer where they might not get picked up...

MOST board houses will interact with you some so as to make sure they
have the correct files in the correct formats (the exception being
sparkfun, who can't afford to do that for $5/in^2)  If you've done
something dramatic incorrectly, or are missing some data entirely,
they'll probably catch it before the board gets made...

BillW
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