Electrical – How to export the milling layer properly with Eagle 8.0

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I've got one of those jack power plugs with the thin rectangular pins on one of my PCBs.

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The milling layer in Eagle shows the "slits" to be drilled as expected (in cyan).

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I export the .drd and .mil files with excellon.cam and gerb274x-mill-drill.cam respectively (job files). However when I upload my gerbers to Eurocircuits, the "PCB Visualiser" thing does not display the slits but only the dot holes.

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How can I make sure Eurocircuits got the right information? Using a gerber viewer on my computer I do see the slits from the .mil file.

Best Answer

On EuroCircuits, you have to do the following:

1 - Change the milling length you desire (left menu on the PCB Viewer):

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2 - Access the "Milling Editor" to select the desired outlines to be milled (right menu on the PCB Viewer).

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Here you select the layer on which the outlines are, and then click on the outlines. Its quite straightforward but a bit of a lengthy task on PCBs with lots of milled parts. Maybe there is an auto option but I never tried it.

I was going to add a screenshot but the webpage crashed. I'll edit it in later.

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