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Incorporate custom outlines - Eagle Tutorial
From the course: Learning PCB Design with EAGLE
Incorporate custom outlines
- [Instructor] Electrical design can get really complicated, so we've used a custom part, we've used a library part and wired them together, and then much more complex behaviors are out of the purview of this course. But while we're still talking about designing boards, let's look at a few more customization options, one of those being making a fancier outline for our board. So EAGLE is not the greatest program when it comes to making complex graphics. For the most part it expects to make rectangles when you're making PCPs. But often you'll want to do something a little more interesting, maybe you've got some custom mounts, if you're making a drone, for example. Or maybe you just want it to look more visually interesting. So to do that you would use an external program, for example, Illustrator, Rhinoceros, something like that, to generate a DXF file, a vector file. That's one of the few types of files that EAGLE can take as an import. So I've already made one for us, and note that…
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Create your own library2m 12s
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Work with datasheets2m 36s
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Create footprints: Pads5m 27s
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Create footprints: Hidden markings3m 30s
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Create footprints: Visible markings4m 2s
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Create symbols and pins2m 43s
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Create a device2m 52s
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Place a custom device1m 58s
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Connect a custom device3m 38s
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Incorporate custom outlines3m 32s
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Add custom imagery3m 24s
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