On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Josh Koffman wrote: > 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. Josh, I just used dxf.ulp on the cream layer of a board and I got something that I think looks like what you want. I deselected the bottom two checkboxes; "use wire widths" and "fill areas" It had BLOCKs defined for each pad, so I opened it in DraftSight (free) selected everything, and EXPLODEd it. That may be a step closer to what you want? --=20 Martin K. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .