strip board design

scaesic · January 24, 2006, 02:02:15 PM

what software do you use to design/image a circuit on stripboard?

TheBigMan · January 24, 2006, 02:10:09 PM

A pencil and paper and then MS Paint.

scaesic · January 24, 2006, 03:02:05 PM

yeah, good one, iv seen standard pictures of stripboard and computer generated components on top of them, i was just wondering if there was an easy approach before i did all the hard work.

Nasse · January 24, 2006, 03:49:54 PM

http://www.abacom-online.de/uk/html/lochmaster.html

I have no experience of that program but posted the link because I remembered it was marketed somewhere where I bought components. So they do programs for stripboard... Well I have always thought stripboard is stripboard, if you put it in a pan and use lots of butter, it is still just only stripboard...

R.G.´s pcb design book still available?

TheBigMan · January 24, 2006, 04:02:09 PM

Quote from: scaesic on January 24, 2006, 03:02:05 PM
yeah, good one, iv seen standard pictures of stripboard and computer generated components on top of them, i was just wondering if there was an easy approach before i did all the hard work.

Not if you want a compact layout. Best way for that is to do it yourself.

hank reynolds 3rd · January 24, 2006, 05:58:44 PM

bigman..
Is that how to do decent layouts??
I hand draw mine, but can you just scan them,and then trace over it in mspaint?? (one for the track, another for one with parts)
Haven't got mspaint, I'm a mac bitch, but at least I can get stuff uploaded here

Cheers
Sam

TheBigMan · January 24, 2006, 07:34:13 PM

I don't do it that way, I just find it easier to do the layout with paper and pencil and then transfer it onto the computer when I'm happy with it. The only reason I use Paint is because it's simple to use and free. Any graphics package will do the job. Also the veroboard templates that are floating around were drawn in Paint. I believe that they are in Dragonfly's Layouts Gallery.

Khas Evets · January 25, 2006, 02:28:19 AM

I do it the same way as TheBigMan and it's tedious. That program looks great. I wonder if it links the schematic to the strip board layout. Having the layout verified would be a nice feature.

cab42 · January 25, 2006, 03:21:49 AM

I also use the pencil/paper/mspaint method. It has the advantage, at least the paper/pencil part, that you can do it anywhere.
I made a layout for the Flat Line Compressor in a train on my way to a meeting a while ago. I also believe that you are able to think more creatively that way. (Another reason for the paper/pencil is that my home computer often is occuppied by other family members

)

Nevertheless I will try the Lochmaster.

Regards

Carsten

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