Hi to all the people here please ,i'm in need to improve my masterhood about Eagle layouts.
I was asked to provide a very readable layout paper sheet for mounting by hands smd components,before they go into the soldering oven. When the circuit is populated by many components reading names it is not so easy,large size components names can overlap with each other, small size names are difficult to read.
I found useful to show only a categorie of parts,as capacitors,resistors,IC's,diodes and so on,but the way i did it is probably primitive ,and far from ideal: I prepared a script NewColors.scr where the palette 16 and 17 are white and the corresponding palettes belows,24 and 25,used to put parts in evidence,are blue and black. In this way all the components are white on a white background,thus invisibles,using the command line SHOW C* shows only the capacitor and their names,not bad. The problem now is how to print in the same fashion: if i print on pdf i have the board as it was before the SHOW command,no component is visible. Exporting image acts the same,just clicking on the tool bar makes disappearing the showed parts.
I tried to understanding if ULP 's language allows to do that,but before spending time on it i would be sure that it is possible.
Any help would be appreciated,and i would be glad to discover that some existing ULP is able to do this job.
Many thanks ,even just for reading this.
Diego Italy