[kicad-users] Creating Veroboard style layouts with Kicad ?

2008-07-24 Thread simon.clubley
I layout my circuits on Veroboard and I am currently using Vutrax because
it has the capability to layout a Veroboard style track in it's PCB
designer.

I would like to switch to an open source package like gEDA or Kicad,
and after reading through the Kicad documentation, I don't see any similar
functionality present, but it's possible that I may have missed it.

The way that Vutrax works is that it has the ability to execute a script
file and the Vutrax owners have implemented a script that draws a
series of tracks, 0.1 inch apart, with through holes in each track at
0.1 inch distances.

The script places the generated tracks on it's own layer (in this case,
layer 10) and the through holes connect them to the rest of the circuit.

The Vutrax advice note can be found here:

http://www.vutrax.co.uk/san206.htm

Have you any ideas about how I can achieve this (or the equivalent) within
Kicad's pcbnew program ?

Thanks for any ideas,

Simon.




[kicad-users] Re: Creating Veroboard style layouts with Kicad ?

2008-07-24 Thread axtz4
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, simon.clubley 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I layout my circuits on Veroboard and I am currently using Vutrax 
because
 it has the capability to layout a Veroboard style track in it's PCB
 designer.
 
 I would like to switch to an open source package like gEDA or Kicad,
 and after reading through the Kicad documentation, I don't see any 
similar
 functionality present, but it's possible that I may have missed it.

Another option is Veecad from http://www.veecad.com.

Veecad is a stripboard/veroboard layout application that can use 
netlists generated by Kicad. It has both free and commercial (but 
pretty inexpensive) versions.

Although I prefer do to home-brew boards using the toner transfer 
method, I have used Veecad to do a couple of layouts and it works 
pretty well.