Yep, for under $12 shipped on amazon (prime) you can get digital calipers that are sensitive enough to measure the width of a human hair (i.e. .01mm or .0005in precision). They have been indispensable to me a number of times, namely putting things inside of CAD programs.
Also, a tip if you want to accurately measure the pinout of something:If calipers can't quite do it (they work fine for obscure SMT pitches, but circular stuff not so well), then simply put the pins of whatever you're measuring on a scanner. Scanners preserve the unit of measurement, and there is software you can use to overlay angles and measure distances and whatnot on the image. I haven't done this in a while, but I remember that it worked for some funky shaped oscillators and things that I took out of an old motion detector a few years back. On Mar 18, 9:57 am, David Forbes <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/17/11 8:00 PM, koolatron wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > Before I go out and buy a set of calipers to measure this socket, has > > anyone managed to generate a working PCB footprint for it? > > > Sean > > Buy the calipers. They are incredibly useful if you are laying out PC > boards or doing metalwork. They and a stereo zoom microscope are two > big-ticket items that will make your electronics hobby much more pleasant. > > -- > David Forbes, Tucson AZ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
