topic Re: How to create a stencil in EAGLE Forum

How to create a stencil

pierrotQMPXK — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 21:56:00 GMT

Hello,

I am still a beginner and even if I cna create a PCB, I would like to try to have a stencil to easly solder some small part as a MBE280 ou a TSL2561.

I have Eagle 9.0.0 and I created a PCB from ULP commande.

Is there an easy way to create a stencil for it?

Thank for your support

Re: How to create a stencil

AutodeskEagleCad — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 00:13:38 GMT

Are you trying to make your own stencil?

Or are you trying to make the file to send to the board house so they can make a stencil for you?

Re: How to create a stencil

pierrotQMPXK — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:02:59 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to create to make the file to send to the board house so they can make a stencil for me

🐵

Tks

Re: How to create a stencil

pierrotQMPXK — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:34:24 GMT

I fond this tuorial

https://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle/blog/getting-started-solder-paste-stencils/

but it shown for the version 8.2.

I do have Eagle 9.0 and I know since 9.0 the PCB process has changed.

What would you recommand you for the version 9.0?

Is this tutorial up to date?

Cheers

Re: How to create a stencil

AutodeskEagleCad — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:46:14 GMT

@pierrotQMPXK wrote:

I fond this tuorial

https://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle/blog/getting-started-solder-paste-stencils/

but it shown for the version 8.2.

I do have Eagle 9.0 and I know since 9.0 the PCB process has changed.

What would you recommand you for the version 9.0?

Is this tutorial up to date?

Cheers

That should work fine.

I've been on Eagle since 8.4 and I'm on 9.x now and haven't noticed any difference in stencil Gerbers.

Re: How to create a stencil

pierrotQMPXK — Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:52:59 GMT

Thank for your reply.

I thing I do not understand.

He said to choose Gerber_RS274X instead of choose Gerber_X2

Secondely, if you look at my picture, the file extension is .gbr instead of .gpt

So I do not know what I did wrong in order to have stencil extension.gpt

Re: How to create a stencil

jorge_garcia — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 20:28:49 GMT

Hi @pierrotQMPXK,

I hope you're doing well. Don't stress over the file extensions, the gerber standard never specified. For the purposes of a stencil you can just use the solderpaste files, solderpaste top and bottom. With the release of 9.2.2 the CAM processor defaults to Gerb274x so you don't have to worry about making that adjustment.

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Re: How to create a stencil

pierrotQMPXK — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 22:47:38 GMT

Hello, thank for your reply. I am going to look for this.