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Incorporate custom outlines

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Incorporate custom outlines

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- [Instructor] Electrical design can get really complicated, so we've used a custom part, we've used a library part and wired them together, and then much more complex behaviors are out of the purview of this course. But while we're still talking about designing boards, let's look at a few more customization options, one of those being making a fancier outline for our board. So EAGLE is not the greatest program when it comes to making complex graphics. For the most part it expects to make rectangles when you're making PCPs. But often you'll want to do something a little more interesting, maybe you've got some custom mounts, if you're making a drone, for example. Or maybe you just want it to look more visually interesting. So to do that you would use an external program, for example, Illustrator, Rhinoceros, something like that, to generate a DXF file, a vector file. That's one of the few types of files that EAGLE can take as an import. So I've already made one for us, and note that…

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