On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:55:38 +0200 Svenn Are Bjerkem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Ahh, now I understand what you want, I can say that I've never seen any app that does this for Linux. I honestly feel that my simple methods of using Gaf and Pcb, produce a prototype far sooner than I could with the 'veroboard" method. The pcbs look great, unlike the veroboard method imho. Have you seen the examples and pics on my pcb site ? http://w3w.arafuraconnect.com.au/~tp/pcbs.html -- Kind Regards Terry Homemade pcbs using Gnu/LinuX gEDA/PCB page :- http://w3w.arafuraconnect.com.au/~tp/pcbs.html Gnu/Linux/Debian-3.0 Registration Number: 103931 :http//counter.li.org * Free Software provided by GNU; http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
