I am looking for simple instructions for putting a logo on a PCB design I have in Eagle CAD. I have googled some instructions, but for some reason haven't been successful. 1776's logo looks good and I saw one with some labeling or logo around a 4pdt switch on the PCB that looked cool as well as others....Just want to professionalize my design a bit. Thanks.
Gimme a sec. I wrote something up about this.
Here we go... I hope.
Thanks! I will check it out.
It looks very prescriptive, which is good. Do this do this, etc. I will try it tonight.
Thank you!
Mark
Quote from: daleykd on May 20, 2016, 05:44:19 PM
Here we go... I hope.
Excellent tutorial. I had a process that worked most of the time, but I have since forgotten it. And yours looks better anyway.
Actually, did anyone managed to make it work with OshPark?
I managed to get my logo on the PCB, however it never appeared on the Oshpark preview when ordering... So I just ended tracing it with Eagle tools (text, line, circle...)
Quote from: Coda-effects on May 20, 2016, 08:30:50 PM
Actually, did anyone managed to make it work with OshPark?
I managed to get my logo on the PCB, however it never appeared on the Oshpark preview when ordering... So I just ended tracing it with Eagle tools (text, line, circle...)
Yeah. My doc talks about OSHPark. I've used it a BUNCH with OSHPark at 500dpi, and it does work. You're right; the preview doesn't show it.
Follow-up: It also works with seeed.
Quote from: daleykd on May 20, 2016, 05:44:19 PM
Here we go... I hope.
Great job Kyle. Thanks for sharing it!
Cody
Thanks for sharing the tutorial!
Quote from: daleykd on May 20, 2016, 09:32:02 PM
Quote from: Coda-effects on May 20, 2016, 08:30:50 PM
Actually, did anyone managed to make it work with OshPark?
I managed to get my logo on the PCB, however it never appeared on the Oshpark preview when ordering... So I just ended tracing it with Eagle tools (text, line, circle...)
Yeah. My doc talks about OSHPark. I've used it a BUNCH with OSHPark at 500dpi, and it does work. You're right; the preview doesn't show it.
Follow-up: It also works with seeed.
so it doesn't show up on the preview but finds its way onto the final board?
Quote from: Coda-effects on May 20, 2016, 08:30:50 PM
Actually, did anyone managed to make it work with OshPark?
I managed to get my logo on the PCB, however it never appeared on the Oshpark preview when ordering... So I just ended tracing it with Eagle tools (text, line, circle...)
I'm doing the same thing ;) a pain in the *** though when you want to change its size
Quote from: m-Kresol on May 21, 2016, 07:53:56 AM
so it doesn't show up on the preview but finds its way onto the final board?
Yep - the renderer script skips it since it's huge. (Notice when you're exporting a PCB with a logo from Eagle it takes ~10 seconds vs. non-logo PCBs are almost instant.)
One time Seeed left off the logo on a batch of mine, but they reprinted them when I mentioned it. It'd be a mistake if they did.
With all the mucking around I've heard tell of for bitmaps on PCBs, like with this thread, I've never bothered, and just put a "Layout AP2016" on mine, these days (adjusting year as needed.)
Quote from: daleykd on May 20, 2016, 05:44:19 PM
Here we go... I hope.
Great tutorial and seems like a better method than I have been using!
The OP mentioned my logo and the circular logo on the Multiplex I believe. One tip I have is to make the graphic a part. Then you can just add the "part" to the schematic and use it as a stamp on your board. Anytime you need to move the logo/graphic you won't have to group together the graphic. It's also easier to reuse a common graphic like a logo.
Josh
Quote from: gtr2 on May 23, 2016, 11:12:12 AM
The OP mentioned my logo and the circular logo on the Multiplex I believe. One tip I have is to make the graphic a part. Then you can just add the "part" to the schematic and use it as a stamp on your board. Anytime you need to move the logo/graphic you won't have to group together the graphic. It's also easier to reuse a common graphic like a logo.
+1000. The graphics are massive on their own (hundreds or thousands of tiny lines), so you are gonna be in a pickle if you add them directly to your board. Even if you're only using it once, I would still recommend creating it as a part!
Quote from: gtr2 on May 23, 2016, 11:12:12 AM
Quote from: daleykd on May 20, 2016, 05:44:19 PM
Here we go... I hope.
Great tutorial and seems like a better method than I have been using!
The OP mentioned my logo and the circular logo on the Multiplex I believe. One tip I have is to make the graphic a part. Then you can just add the "part" to the schematic and use it as a stamp on your board. Anytime you need to move the logo/graphic you won't have to group together the graphic. It's also easier to reuse a common graphic like a logo.
Josh
So, I hate to ask this, but are there step by step instructions for adding a logo as a part? .....That sounds genius!
Quote from: gtr2 on May 23, 2016, 11:12:12 AM
The OP mentioned my logo and the circular logo on the Multiplex I believe. One tip I have is to make the graphic a part. Then you can just add the "part" to the schematic and use it as a stamp on your board. Anytime you need to move the logo/graphic you won't have to group together the graphic. It's also easier to reuse a common graphic like a logo.
Quote from: aion on May 23, 2016, 11:21:37 AM
+1000. The graphics are massive on their own (hundreds or thousands of tiny lines), so you are gonna be in a pickle if you add them directly to your board. Even if you're only using it once, I would still recommend creating it as a part!
Good point, guys. I would do this if the size of my logo was the same on all my boards. However, since I try my hardest to shrink the board to smallest possible size (without going SMD), my logo isn't the same size.
Quote from: markeprice on May 23, 2016, 02:22:34 PM
So, I hate to ask this, but are there step by step instructions for adding a logo as a part? .....That sounds genius!
Create a new package inside a library (I created a new library called 'aion-logos' to contain all of my logos). It will just be a package, not a full component - we don't want an associated schematic symbol.
Now you have an empty package - run the logo import process from there and it'll draw itself into the package.
I then use the "Change" tool to select everything and move it to the tPlace layer so I don't have to remember to include layer 100 in my CAM job.
I will try that and see if I can figure it out! Thanks
Bumping this to offer some additional notes with a more recent version of Eagle (9.3.1). Daleykd's PDF is still correct up until the dialog box that pops up when you run the import bitmap script. Every time I tried it (importing into a blank BRD so I can paste into a logo library and create a new part), I got a weird blue graphic that doesn't show up on the board layout. The trick, apparently, is to import into layer 21 (tplace) instead of the default of 200.