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Loading a CAM Job

The process of generating the CAM files is extremely configurable. You can essentially use any of the
layers as the basis for any of the preceding Gerber files. This flexibility is very powerful but also
allows plenty of room for error if you are designing your own CAM configuration from scratch.

By far the easiest way of generating the files is to use a CAM configuration (called a CAM job)
that has been designed by someone else. In this book, we will use the excellent CAM job designed by
Sparkfun. This is available free of charge from Sparkfun at

https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_Eagle_Settings/tree/master/cam.
To install this into EAGLE, download the file sfe-gerb274x.cam, and copy it into the .cam
folder in your EAGLE installation directory.

Running a CAM Job

To load the Sparkfun CAM job, select the “CAM Processor” option from the File menu while you
have the board you want to create Gerber files for open. This will open the default CAM processor
job, as shown in Figure 6-1.