Eagle CAD Drill Locations Off

[funktronic]

I have just received my Voltera with the drilling attachment. I am very, very new to this machine and with Eagle CAD. I have ran into an issue with the drill hole locations. After loading the drills.xln file, all the holes appear in the lower left corner. Not sure what I’ve done wrong here.

[jazozaya]

Hi @funktronic,

Welcome to the forums! Without seeing the Gerber files, I can only make an educated guess of what the problem is.

I believe there is a mismatch between drill file and gerber file formatting. It would appear the drill files are off by an order of magnitude. (aka - a decimal place needs to be shifted by one)

This can be corrected during the Gerber generation. In the CAM processor for Eagle 8.7 set your Drill formating as follows:

And then set your Gerber formatting as follows:

Alternatively - you can use our CAM file found here. I recommend using our CAM file because it will give the Gerbers the proper extensions the software is expecting.

i.e - Top Copper = *.GTL, Solder Paste = *.GTP, Drill File = *.TXT, etc.

Can you give it a try and let us know if it worked?

[funktronic]

You were spot on! Thanks!

[jazozaya]

Hi Everybody,

I just wanted to follow up on this post.

We’ve created a dedicated CAM file for Eagle v8.6.0 onwards. This CAM file will export the Gerbers with the proper extensions and formatting the Voltera software is expecting.