Homebrew PCBs

By the way, I was at a big box bookstore today and saw a book by Al
Williams "Making Printed Circuit Boards".  Half the book is an Eagle
tutorial.  From my 5 minute look it seemed pretty decent and I'd
recommend it to anyone starting out with Eagle.  My biggest quibble is
that he spends a fair mumber of pages pushing the autorouter and none
(that I could see) on manual routing.

Phil

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "crankorgan" <john@k...> wrote:
> 
>     Hans explains it to me starting at message 902  Just enter 902 in
> the message box. 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "daveismissing"
> <shootme007@h...> wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks John
> > I am aware of the "fill" but as I am an eagle rookie i have not found 
> > the way to display fill on the screen.
> > I tend to do a lot of rectangles - ends up looking like an SMD board
> > I figure for the slow speed stuff I do tieing rectangles to either 
> > rail is ok.
> > 
> > I touch up and enhance large areas with shellac(sic?) mixed a little 
> > thicker.  
> > 
> > D
> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "crankorgan" <john@k...> wrote:
> > > 
> > >    With the Eagle program you can FILL the ground plane around the
> > > traces. Hans told us how many messages back. I used this method on 
> > my
> > > Piker board. All ground points are the same large trace. Very little
> > > etching required. Done correctly there are no ground loops. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "daveismissing"
> > > <shootme007@h...> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Why isn't all this software done the other way 'round?
> > > > I really just want to define how much space I want between 
> > traces. 
> > > > I want all the rest to be trace.
> > > > Less etchant, no erosion issues, easier for TT  etc....
> > > > crazy?