On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:20:07 -0500, "Robert Young"
<rwybeaker@hotmail.com> said:
> 
> 
> > Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:47:19 -0700
> > From: micro_eng2@yahoo.com
> > Subject: Re: [OT] combining gerbers for panels (eagle)
> > To: piclist@mit.edu
> > 
> > Actually I may have found a way to do this, not sure how repeatable but looking at the files in GerbMagic, it seems to work ok.
> > 
> > Open the board file without the schematic.
> > Make sure all layers, etc are active
> > select all, then cut to the paste buffer
> > Edit--> paste brings up a new copy of the board and just place where you want it to be in the "panel"
> > 
> > Of course the schematic is now no longer associated and you need to remember to rename the panel board file else your original is gone....
> > 
> 
> The other problem is you can no longer have duplicate component names in
> your silk screens.
> 
> For example, R1 might become R99 in the copied board.

What you can do is suppress the component names, then redraw the
component names as "text" to appear on the silkscreen layer.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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