Comments on: Ground Pour

By: paijo

paijo — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:55:22 +0000

this is what i need…thanks

By: Hawg

Hawg — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:48:56 +0000

gm-

I also got the error when I entered the ch lay bot command, because I was still working from the new->schematic from the last tutorial.

If anyone else gets the error, it might be because you are working on a schematic instead of a board. Right click your project and go new ->board.

By: Parker

Parker — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:40:58 +0000

Ah sorry my mistake I was assuming ‘mil’ was short for ‘millimetres’ which apparently it isnt? Must be a yank thing…
Again this is a fantastic tutorial – cheers

By: Parker

Parker — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:26:27 +0000

Great tutorial, but what do those six commands actually do? Becasue now eagle thinks my board is actually 3.7 metres across and I cant seem to change it back…

By: RNFR

RNFR — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:57:24 +0000

i’ve found that ch wid 1 makes your ground pour edged much cleaner and nicer looking. give it a shot!

and thanks GM, i still refer here often!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:29:32 +0000

nice ..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:29:01 +0000

good tuto

By: Rufio

Rufio — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:20:12 +0000

Great tutorail gauss, thanks for the librarys. I made my first pcb, i don’t know if its going to work, but looks ok.

Are you going to continue this tuto? I had trouble withe the tool “autorute”, didn’t like the way the ground line came out.
How do you make de ground line stays around the pcb?
And finally how do i export my pcb to another program, like photoshop, to print it, with other pcbs?

By: Allan

Allan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:02:03 +0000

I got it figured out! I was clicking on the pour rather than the traces to change the layer.

By: Allan

Allan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:29:04 +0000

Loving these tutorials, got my first pcbs started with your help. Thanks.

I’m having trouble getting my top and bottom layer pours to ‘work together’ they are wiping out traces in each ones level. Like this:
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c143/ringworm_1974/Picture1.png

Any tips? is there a way to make a board with just a single layer, this would seem to make sense for small stompbox projects, or am i misunderstanding something fundamental about pcb design?