Hi all,
I'm trying to decide if I should buy Eagle or not. The program itself seems pretty decent, but I'm having trouble getting the resulting PCB made. My usual manufacturer is Fastrack. When I sent them my Gerbers I was told they weren't any good - the tracks looked OK but the holes were spread out to an area about 50x the size of the circuit board.
Fastrack say
"We use your excellon drill file to determine what size holes to drill and where. Plated and Non Plated holes should be included in one drill file, with plated and non-plated holes having different tool numbers. Format required: Excellon Format, ASCII Odd / None, 2.4 Trailling Zero Suppression, English Units, No step and repeats. "
It turns out that Eagle produced drill files with Leading zero suppression and is unable to use Trailing zero suppression. But I was later told this was a typo and Fastrack wants Leading zero suppression after all.
So has anyone had any luck getting eagle or gerber files fabbed by Fastrack? I've always used Protel and never had to muck around with gerbers before.
Thanks,
Al