After clicking, will open the Gerber generate dialog: You can calculate the price for the PCB order, click SAVE to CART will go to JLCPCB and add your PCB in the cart. The program should now create files on the location you specify with the following extensions:.cmp,.gpi,.plc,.sol,.stc,.sts. Gerber Files for Drilling. If holes for screws are needed, you need a separate job. On the same CAM processor window, select File Open Jobs again and choose, excellon.cam. The program may ask you to save the.

• Express Pcb Gerber Files
• Pcb Artist Gerber Files

Generating Gerbers

Select File -> Plot from the menu to open the gerber generation tool.

At the top of the pop-up window, you’ll see the folder location for your files, click browse. Make sure you’re in your project directory.

Make a new folder called Gerbers, select it and click select folder. Click Yes if asked to use a relative path.
On the left side, you’ll see which layers from our board design we want to turn into Gerber files.

Select all the layers you need. For a simple PCB, you’ll need the

• Top and Bottom silkscreen layers
• Front and back copper
• Edge cuts

The In1 and In2 layers are only needed for four-layer boards.

Make sure the front and back copper layers are checked as well as the front and back silkscreen layers. Check front mask, back mask, and edge cuts.

The mask layers show where solder mask needs to go and the edge cuts layer is our board outline with the slot cut out at the top.
It also gives us which options we need to check.

Make sure that the “Exclude PCB edge layer from other layers” is checked. We want the part reference designators to show up on the board so leave that checked. But we don’t want the values to be printed, so uncheck “Plot footprint values”.

Click 'Plot' and the Gerber files will be generated and saved in the Gerbers folder.

Generating Drill file

Express Pcb Gerber Files

Click “Generate Drill File“. Check the below options and leave everything else to default.

• 'Inches'
• 'Decimal format'
• 'Postscript'
  

Click “Generate Drill File” and you should see a message in the bottom text window indicating that new files were created.

Pcb Artist Gerber Files

Verify the Files

Next, click 'Close' to exit the Generate Drill File windows. All of the files should have appeared in your gerbers folder. Then select all of the files, zip them up, and upload the zip file to JLCPCB order page.

After uploading your files, you can verify the gerbers by using our Gerber Viewer.

What is Eagle software?

EAGLE is a scriptable electronic design automation (EDA) application with schematic capture, printed circuit board (PCB) layout, auto-router and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) features. EAGLE stands for Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor (German: Einfach Anzuwendender Grafischer Layout-Editor) and is developed by CadSoft Computer GmbH. The company was acquired by Autodesk Inc. in 2016.EAGLE contains a schematic editor, for designing circuit diagrams. Schematics are stored in files with .SCH extension, parts are defined in device libraries with .LBR extension. Parts can be placed on many sheets and connected together through ports.
The PCB layout editor stores board files with the extension .BRD. It allows back-annotation to the schematic and auto-routing to automatically connect traces based on the connections defined in the schematic.
When you finished your PCB design in Eagle, you could generate Gerber files which is needed by PCB manufacturer. This NextPCB’s article is telling you how to export the Gerber file from Eagle software.

After those step, Gerber files and Drill data have been exported from Eagle software.
Feel free to contact us: support@nextpcb.com
if you have any more questions.