On Wednesday 11 June 2003 01:17, Terry Porter wrote: > Can you elaborate please ? > > By 'veroboards' do you mean the off the shelf pre etched and drilled copper > clad boards with rows of straight lines of copper drilled every 0.1 inch ?
Excactly. They may have a different name in different countries. (Just like "Tesa" film in Germany) Normally these prototyping boards are laid out on paper, if at all, and the components placed and soldered on the run. After a round with a milling machine I discovered that the time spent on the first board probably exceeded the time I would have needed for a prototyping board. I've done many veros by paper and tried to find a software to put it on the computer (nice for sharing on the net, in pdf etc.) The ones I have found are not worth mentioning and I have to learn a new schematic and pcb tool with less flexibility and crap libraries. Needed is a plot of top side with component and jumper placement and bottom with line breaks. The hole grid should be visible as light gray dots (not to obscure components) with every fifth row and column numbered in order to localize placement and cutting. For the outline of the board, I guess one could make a component without too much work and lock it in place in order not to accidentally move it, as it would cover all the other components. Automatic placement of components is not a must. -- Svenn
