Hi all,

I'm trying to come up with a better stencil for my toaster oven reflow
experiment. The last time I just exported the cream layers from my
Eagle file and had a mylar sheet laser cut. This time I'd like to play
a bit with the apertures to help avoid getting too much paste down.

I've been using dxf.ulp to create DXFs which I'm then combining and
sending to my laser cutting guy. This ULP seems to be creating solids
in the DXF file when it exports. I'd like them to be outlines (ideally
with individual lines) so that I can play with resizing things. Some
of the landing patterns I've used aren't symmetrical, so I can't just
"shrink each pad by 10%" or something simple. I tried using the
cam2dxf.ulp, but I can't seem to make it generate anything.

So...does anyone have a way of exporting outlines of apertures from
Eagle? Or, do you know a way (ideally in AutoCAD 2002) to convert a
"solid" into a series of lines? What's odd is that even the solid
editing tools don't seem to want to touch these shapes, likely because
they aren't proper 3D solids.

Thanks!

Josh
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