Eagle

My first tottering steps in Eagle, documented before I come to regard them as routine, and cease to think of them as the very high obstacles I had to overcome to get to use it to advantage.

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Step 1: Instal Eagle

Evidently, that Eagle I installed on the desktop is just a pretty picture and does not help design electronic circuits any more than a pitcher of a bush looked at through binoculars (with cap on) will.

The program has to be installed so that clicking on the start button will bring up a menu somewhat like the one below. Clicking on the icon labelled EAGLE 4.13 will start the program. If you have a different version, those digits might be different, of course.

I am sorry, I do not remember any details of installing it. Selecting the default choices offered during installation should be fine, because that is what I usually do.

Sandisk1duo says: Jun 25, 2008. 8:42 AM

what do you suggest i do if the IC is not in eagle?

matthewbeckler says: Apr 7, 2007. 8:37 AM

If you notice, directly above the right-most SMT pad for the 'bead', there is a via connecting top with bottom. If you don't have any reason for it, you might as well eliminate the via, by ripping up the old route, and re-routing it manually on the top layer. You could also move the SMT device to the bottom of the board, and leave all traces on the bottom. Then you could get away with only using a single-sided board, which is very nice if you are doing your own board production and etching.

neelandan (author) says: Apr 10, 2007. 12:08 AM

True. But my intention was to show a different way of implementing my UHF oscillator, rather than producing a PCB layout for it. The advanced features, like optimising for a single side layout etc are explained in various other instructables at this site.

jtobako says: Apr 4, 2007. 9:15 AM

Please explain what Eagle is in the intro.

Myself says: Apr 4, 2007. 2:54 PM

Darn! I thought I was gonna learn about the care and feeding of haliaeetus leucocephalus. :( Seriously though, sweet instructable in need of a better title/intro. I'll have to check this software out, now that I know what it is.