Arduino Eagle CAD Course – this Saturday 3 March 9-13

• by skullkey
• February 27, 2012

Nick will be presenting a course on using Eagle CAD this Saturday 3 March 9-13.

The course contents

1. Introduction to the main components of the Eagle CAD
2. The Control Panel
3. The Circuit Diagram  Editor
4. The PCB Layout Editor
5. The button on each of the above screen and what they do
6. Drawing your first Circuit Diagram
7. Placing components on the circuit diagram
8. The students are given an Arduino Shield to design the circuit and layout the PCB and produce a PS file for sending to the PCB manufacturer
9. Manipulating the components
   • moving
   • rotating
   • inverting
10. wiring up the components
11. Discussion on what needs to be wired so you get power and ground on the required IC pins when laying out the PCB
12. Optimizing the layout of your circuit diagram for better readability
13. placing links in your circuit diagram for solving PCB routing problems
14. Generating Component Schedules
15. Drawing the tracks on the PCB
16. Placing components on the circuit diagram
17. Manipulating the components
    • moving
    • rotating
    • inverting
18. Optimizing the layout of your  Circuit diagram
19. Wiring up the components
20. Solving routing problems using links
21. Creating Post Script Files for providing PCB manufacturers

You will need a laptop with the free version of Eagle pre-installed.

The course cost will be R200.

If you would like to attend, please reply to this mail.

Nick will be presenting a course on using Eagle CAD this Saturday 3 March 9-13. The course contents Introduction to the main components of the Eagle CAD The Control Panel The Circuit Diagram  Editor The PCB Layout Editor The button on each of the above screen and what they do Drawing your first Circuit Diagram…