I am trying to simply shrink my lighted tailcap board down to 17mm from 20mm. I haven’t messed with Eagle in awhile and I feel like I’ve forgot everything. I was able to change the radius of my milling layer, but I need to move the pads in further. For the life of me, I can’t ‘select’ the pads to move them. I can move the vias and everything else without problem, just not those pads. When I created the board, I used a template for an 0805 cap to get the pad spacing right instead of drawing them freehand. Maybe that has something to do with it?
Is your top origin and bottom origin layer active? It displays a thin black “x” or “” at the center of a component. The is what you click to move it.
Also the “x” should be actually oriented as a +. When it is oriented as an x that means the part is locked in position and must be unlocked before it can be moved.
Ok, one more thing. Is there any way I can tell Eagle to just trim off everything outside the milling circle? Or do I manually need to remove all of that? Or will Oshpark be fine if I make the milling circle huge (thick) to cover all of the overflow?
Anything outside the board (milling) will be trimmed by oshpark. It’s best to keep the milling line very thin. Otherwise there can be the question of if you intend them to mill the middle of the line or inside edge. I’ve used 0.001mm, though that’s overkill a bit. With ground rings I always have some outside of the milling and I let it be trimmed by oshpark.
Definitely some tidying up to do. I noticed some of CK’s links no longer work and I know there are boards out that are not listed. As I said in the op I’m reluctant to go mining for this stuff so thanks for posting Rich.
Is there a different place that offers a service similar to Oshpark (low prices, low minimum order), but can do a thinner pcb? Osh works great for drivers, but for the lighted tailcaps sometimes space is very tight.
Not in the USA that I know of. Places like seeedstudio.com do them overseas in small runs of 10 or more for about $1 a piece, but much less if you buy larger quantities.
Bummer. Have you used that place? are they decently fast?
edit: That price isn’t terrible, and they list a shipping date of 11/16, so it might even be faster than osh. Do you think 0.8mm would be strong enough for a switch pcb?
I really like gojgo.com I can get boards from them faster than OSHPARK (using their DHL shipping option) and at around 1/10th the cost for larger quantities of larger boards. Also check out dirtypcbs.com