For some reason Mattaus is a glutton for punishment … he goes through the extra steps of making Gerber files and uploads them to OSHPARK,. Unfortunately he does not usually make the solder paste layers.
All you really need to do is upload the Eagle .brd file (assuming you are using Eagle to lay out your boards). This saves you the steps of running the Eagle CAM processor to make Gerber files and the icky/error prone task of selecting, renaming, and zipping up the Gerber files. Both OSHPARK and OSHSTENCILS can work directly with Eagle .BRD files.
Is there an extra layer that should be selected to make a paste layer…I use Mattaus’s cam job to generate my board as well edit
Yup…verified, I tested 2x times
1st time went into the Mattaus CAM job, added an extra process called it PasteLayer, changed to the GERBER_RS274X and highlighted the tCream bCream (saves it in the %N.XLN file), then ran the job…uploaded to OSHPark stencils…when I viewed the job the .gts and .gbs would work as a stencil…when I removed that layer and deleted the .zip and reran the job and uploaded the layers weren’t there anymore and it wouldn’t make good stencil builds
Come to think of it…when I created the tab…it duplicated the drills and holes, not sure if it left the Drills and Holes selected and I just added tCream and bCream to the .XLN file and OSHStencils just picked it up…
You selected tStop & bStop layers. In the cam processor click add, clear all layer selections, add tCream, change file extension to .gtp. For the bottom its bCream & extension .gbp.
I added two tabs, labelled them Top PasteLayer, selected only tPaste, and Bottom PasteLayer bPaste, told it to save them as .PST and .PSB, and voila!
So adding two more files to the .zip will round it out completely for OSHPark and OSHStencils…one quick click and the gerber file is good to go
Can you post a link to the file we need, described as: ” on OSHPARK.COM as a shared project. Download the .BRD file ”
I looked, don’t know my way around; the page’s search tool — looking for “stencil” — doesn’t find it, and it appears there are 400 shared project pages?
It seems that something got messed up in his post, I think he had the link there previously:
CREE MTG/XRE/XML/XPG solder paste stencil http://oshpark.com/shared_projects/dw8NYoED