{"id":740,"date":"2017-03-22T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/eagle\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2023-09-26T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T22:18:13","slug":"eagle-pro-perspective-webinar-im-done-design-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/eagle-pro-perspective-webinar-im-done-design-now\/","title":{"rendered":"EAGLE Pro Perspective Webinar: I\u2019m Done With My Design, What Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m Done With My Design, What Now?<\/span><\/h1>\n

It\u2019s a common mistake for engineers to assume that once you have your schematic and layout done then that\u2019s it, you\u2019ve crossed the finish line. You will find many tutorials on how to design your schematic and board layout, only to find out that all of those hours of research only got you 75% of the way to your final destination.<\/span><\/p>\n

But what else is there you might be asking?<\/span><\/p>\n

Manufacturing. Ah, right, that thing you only start to care about when your design is finished.<\/span><\/p>\n

We get it; it\u2019s all about the design process. But let me ask you this, what happens when you find out your PCB can\u2019t be manufactured? This could all be avoided with a simple shift in perspective and some new knowledge. Because when it comes to designing a board right the first time, you always need to keep manufacturing in mind. We can show you how to design with a manufacturer’s brain, in a <\/span>free EAGLE Pro Perspective webinar<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

All That Toil Being Spoiled<\/h2>\n

We\u2019ve all toiled on a design for days, weeks, or even months at a time, spending countless hours planning every last detail. We make sure all of our pins are properly connected on our schematic, and every trace and via is where it should be on our layout. But with all this time focused on the two primary activities of the PCB design process, when do we ever have time to understand the larger perspective that includes manufacturing?<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought I had all of my to-do\u2019s checked off on my first design. I had spent hours drawing up an excellent schematic and spent days tinkering with my component placement and routing until I was satisfied. At this point, I assumed my design process was done. So I generated some Gerbers and an NC Drill file and shipped it off to my manufacturer without any doubts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turns out I had some things wrong that I didn\u2019t catch. It\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t notice these problems, I had no idea they were even problems in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why?<\/span><\/p>\n

I was blind to the ways and methods of designing a PCB from a manufacturer\u2019s perspective. It was all a bunch of simple things too, which really surprised me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had silkscreen placed on the top of a pad by accident. And I left an open loop on my board when I was adjusting some nets. I should have caught these things, but I lacked the needed perspective. If I had some checklist of the do\u2019s and don\u2019ts for a manufacturing PCB design, then these mistakes would have never happened. I could have had answers ahead of time to questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n