Holes in Dimension Layer?

[Blackie Beard]

Is there a way to remove the holes from the dimension layer? Meaning, if I
want to print just the board outline (dimension layer) and top silk, for
example, I get some hole outlines from the drill table 6 inches below, which
cause my desired image to be reduced to fit the page. Is there some
command to associate these hole outlines with some other, innocuous layer?

Thx,
BB

[Paul Romanyszyn]

Post by Blackie Beard
Is there a way to remove the holes from the dimension layer? Meaning, if I
want to print just the board outline (dimension layer) and top silk, for
example, I get some hole outlines from the drill table 6 inches below, which
cause my desired image to be reduced to fit the page. Is there some
command to associate these hole outlines with some other, innocuous layer?
Thx,
BB

I don't know but I think you can't move them to a different layer.
If they are just holes do a window delete to remove them. Do your
printing and then undelete (or work with a backup copy).

You should be able to set the print scale and offsets and get it to work
but I know it is not an easy task or if it is even possible. I failed
the last time I tried.
Paul R

[Tilmann Reh]

Post by Blackie Beard
Is there a way to remove the holes from the dimension layer?

Unfortunately not. I also once complained about those "implicit" objects
in the dimension layer (which I assume are for the autorouter to detect
the "outline" of the board there).

Post by Blackie Beard
Meaning, if I
want to print just the board outline (dimension layer) and top silk, for
example, I get some hole outlines from the drill table 6 inches below, which
cause my desired image to be reduced to fit the page. Is there some
command to associate these hole outlines with some other, innocuous layer?

For clean printouts, I always use separate layers like "Document" (48)
and "Reference" (49), or even user-defined additional layers. Sometimes
I want to have a silkscreen printout including _visible_ hole outlines -
that means the implicit width of zero is not enough and I have to add a
separate circle of proper width on the document layer.

However, if you have objects (even holes) that are so far of your real
board, they will always cause misscaling during printout. EAGLE takes
the maximum coordinates of /all/ objects, not only of the visible ones,
for scaling resp. page fitting.

Why are these objects so far away?
And why are there any holes at all? You know about drill-legend.ulp?

Tilmann

[Blackie Beard]

Post by Tilmann Reh
However, if you have objects (even holes) that are so far of your real
board, they will always cause misscaling during printout. EAGLE takes
the maximum coordinates of /all/ objects, not only of the visible ones,
for scaling resp. page fitting.
Why are these objects so far away?
And why are there any holes at all? You know about drill-legend.ulp?
Tilmann

Hi - no but I do recall trying to use it once - does "drill-legend.ulp" not
leave any residual circles from the hole outlines in the dimension layer?
How does it do that?

Thx,
Mark

[Tilmann Reh]

Post by Blackie Beard

... You know about drill-legend.ulp?

Hi - no but I do recall trying to use it once - does "drill-legend.ulp" not
leave any residual circles from the hole outlines in the dimension layer?
How does it do that?

Sorry, I don't understand - can you be more precise/detailed, please?

Tilmann