> I bought a book on Eagle to learn, I bought an Eagle book too, but didn't find it very helpful and ended up learning more from online tutorials.
> but I switched to DipTrace That's another one I plan to investigate. > when I realized how much Eagle would cost to make boards that would hold 8, > Z568 tubes. Back when I was using the Hobbyist version of Eagle, I had a similar problem with a board for 8 IN-8-2 tubes, and another project with a microcontroller controlling a bunch of triacs. In both cases, I ended up dividing the boards up. Then IN-8-2 project, I split it into two boards of 4 tubes apiece with right-angle connectors between them and a vertical one using the same pads to bring the signals in. This way, the two boards were identical, and with some PCB houses, that's a cheaper way to go (for example, OSHPark offers 3 copies of a board for a price based on the board's size). The triac project ended up working the same way, I had a CPU board and then a bunch of 8-channel triac boards connected with ribbon cables. This actually ended up making the solution fairly versatile, as some computer controlled lighting software supports 16 channels (so I'd use 2 8-channel boards), but some could utilize all 24 channels available (so I'd plug in 3 boards). Even though I now have the full professional version of Eagle, I've found that the decision I once made of necessity I now still often make by choice. - 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/105B8096-CE4F-415E-92B0-72DC3F71EC80%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
