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Jay,

I would recommend Al William's book, _Build Your Own Printed Circuit 
Board_.  This book will show you how to use Eagle and gives some of the 
details on board layout basics that often get overlooked.  It won't 
teach you everything about layout, but it's a good place for a beginner 
to start.  It's available from Amazon.com at a very reasonable price.

Rick


jay marante wrote:

> sorry for the OT. i just don't know where to ask these questions.
>
> i know a little about the eagle lay-out editor. i do manual tracing of 
> PCB. but i know there is this "auto-routing" thing where the PC routes 
> the tracks for you, like the protel design systems'.
> i don't know if i understand what i've read correctly, but, am i right 
> that you can write a program (text) in eagle for all the connections 
> or the components to be connected like in VHDL instead of dragging 
> components and connect them yourself? if ever, how do i do that?
> also, how do i auto-route?
> and, how can i make a "gerber" (right spelling???) file for me to 
> download it into a milling machine?
> or maybe, can someone lead me to a tutorial site?
>
> thanks for the help...
>
> -jay
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