eagle - Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor

eagle [options] [file] [layers]

EAGLE is a printed circuit board (PCB) design tool that combines schematic capture, layout editing and autorouting.

Most of the options are intended for use with the CAM Processor in command line mode.

Options are either switches that turn a certain feature on or off, or set a certain parameter to a given value. Switch options are followed by a '+' or '-' sign, which turns the given option 'on' or 'off', respectively. In the following list of all options switch options are shown with their default value. If a switch option is 'off' by default, it can be turned 'on' by simply using the option character (the '+' sign is implicit).

With tolerance options values that have a positive sign define positive tolerances, negative signs define negative tolerances, and values without a sign define 'plus/minus' tolerances.

-D tolerance

Tolerance for draw type apertures (0.1 = 10%).

Default: 0

-E tolerance

Tolerance for drills (0.1 = 10%).

Default: 0

-F tolerance

Tolerance for flash type apertures (0.1 = 10%).

Default: 0

-N

No command line prompts. Turns off the command line message prompts in the CAM Processor. This is mostly useful for fully automated CAM batch jobs.

-O+

Optimize movement for pen plotters, photo plotters and drill stations.

Default: on

-P layer=pen

For pen plotters this option defines which layer is to be printed with which pen (color). layer can range from 1..255, pen can range from 1..255.

-R rackfile

Drill rack file.

-S scriptfile

Define a different startup script file name.

Default: eagle.scr

-W wheelfile

Aperture wheel file.

-X-

Execute the CAM Processor in command line mode. Together with the -I option the CAM Processor ist started in interactive mode.

-a-

Emulate annulus apertures. This option only works if the -e option is also turned on.

Default: off

-c+

Assert positive coordinates ("auto fit"). Moves the output data so that everything is located in the positive coordinate area.

Default: on

-d device

CAM Processor output device (-d? for a list of all known devices).

-e-

Emulate unavailable apertures with smaller ones. Options -a and -t can be used to define whether annulus and thermal apertures should also be emulated.

Default: off

-f+

Fill pads. Defines wehther the drill holes of pads and vias should be filles or not.

Default: on

-h pageheight

Page height (inch) for printers.

-m-

Mirror output. Note that this can cause negative coordinates, so you might want to make sure that the -c option is on.

Default: off

-o outputfile

Output filename.

-p pendiameter

Pen diameter (mm) for pen plotters.

Default: 0

-q-

Quick plot, which draws only the outlines of objects.

Default: off

-r-

Rotate output by 90 degrees. Note that this can cause negative coordinates, so you might want to make sure that the -c option is on.

Default: off

-s scalefactor

Scale factor for the generated output. Values smaller than 1.0 generate a shrinked output. If scalefactor has a negative (integer) value, the actual scale factor will be selected automatically so that the drawing will fit on the number of pages given by the absolute value of scalefactor.

Default: 1.0

-t-

Emulate thermal apertures. This option only works if the -e option is also turned on.

Default: off

-u-

Output upside down (i.e. rotate by 180 degrees). Note that this can cause negative coordinates, so you might want to make sure that the -c option is on.

Default: off

-v penvelocity

Pen velocity (in cm/s, for pen plotters that support this feature). The default value of 0 selects the plotter's default pen velocity.

Default: 0

-w pagewidth

Page width (inch) for printers.

-x offset

Offset in x direction (inch).

Default: 0.0

-y offset

Offset in y direction (inch).

Default: 0.0

By default, EAGLE is installed in /opt/eagle, but you can install it into any other directory you might prefer.

The following subdirectories are located below this directory:

tab (@); l l. bin@Executable programs cam@CAM Processor files doc@Documentation files dru@Design Rules files projects@Example board and schematic files help@Online help files lbr@Part library files man@Manual page scr@Script files ulp@User Language Programs

Context sensitive online help information is provided as a set of HTML text files.

EAGLE implements its own HTML viewer, but the help files can of course also be viewed with any other HTML viewer.

SIGTERM

Terminates the program. Any modified files will not be saved.

0

Successful program execution.

1

CAM Processor warning.

>1

An error has occurred.

~/.eaglerc

User specific parameters are stored in the file .eaglerc under the user's home directory.

This is EAGLE version 4.11.

EAGLE is produced by CadSoft Computer GmbH (http://www.cadsoft.de).

Copyright (c) 1988-2003 CadSoft Computer GmbH.