> On Aug 20, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Jason Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > > I design boards occasionally for various projects. I happen to use Eagle, > which some board vendors accept directly, otherwise it can output > industry-standard Gerber files which will work with the vast majority of > vendors. I've even designed boards for IN-8 tubes (I created a custom part > myself, as this design needed to fit certain specific parameters). If I can > get the specifications for the Nocrotec sockets, I can make a custom part for > them too. I've appended one of my IN-8 board designs to illustrate how my > work tends to look. It's all hand routed, and an ordinary low-cost 2-layer > board that doesn't use any tight spacings or fine wires that would make it > more difficult or expensive to manufacture. It actually goes into a widget > with 8 tubes, which uses two of these boards side by side (via the connectors > on the ends), which gives even tube spacing when plugged together. It did it > this way, because it's often cheaper to produce several small boards than one > big one (for various reasons). > > I will take a look at Eagle. I have done board layouts in AutoCad before but > at the moment I don't have access to any cad software. I am sure there are > much more useful tools for that kind of work anyway. Part of my hope is to > integrate power for the blue LEDs on the Nocrotec sockets since there are no > provisions for this in the kit. Looks like I may be able to get Eagle free > under an educational license.
Yeah, the free version of Eagle is what I learned on. That's the other reason I split my 8-tube board into two 4-tube boards: the smaller boards fit into the free version of Eagle's size limitation. When I designed that board, I was still using the free version. I'm willing to create an Eagle part for you for the Nocrotec sockets, with and/or without LED power. Creating parts in Eagle isn't too tough, but it can be a bit much for a beginner. I can heartily recommend SparkFun's tutorials on how to use Eagle (I'd start with Using EAGLE: Schematic and Using EAGLE: Board Layout): https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/tags/eagle <https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/tags/eagle> Adafruit has a nice video on using EAGLE to route boards too: https://blog.adafruit.com/2009/11/19/pcb-routing-with-eagle-video/ <https://blog.adafruit.com/2009/11/19/pcb-routing-with-eagle-video/> - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/D23B3D3D-8508-4BAA-BB81-2EB2B84AA787%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
