On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:55 PM, craigl2@... wrote:
> I have just started learning to use Eagle and have only made a couple simple single sided PCBs. The last time I made a PCB was 40 years ago.
Sounds like we're in the same boat. I made a bunch of PCBs back in the early 1980s using manual layout and resist-ink pen. I migrated into software and did not get back into electronics again until just a few years ago. So far I have been building everything on protoboard, and after discovering how easy it really is to make PCBs with toner transfer and CuCl I'm wishing I had gone down that road sooner.
> To use the CAM processor you would have to tell it to include layer 116 in the output file. For home use I am not sure what advantage, if any, the CAM processor provides. Perhaps someone with more experience can inform both of us of the advantages and disadvantages of each method..
Yup. I enabled layer 116 in the CAM processor and it did not render. Using the "print" option is actually easier, so unless there are no downsides to that (I can9;t see any) that is how I'll be doing things.
-p.