DIY Layout Creator - software for easy drawing PCB, vero and perfboard layouts

[Ben N]

Measure some real resistors (and caps, and ...), then you'll end up with a layout which is pretty close to reality when you come to stuff your board.

I take the lazy way out. The Tayda website has measurements for most components (passives, anyway), such as length and width, diameter (for electrolytics), and pin spacing. I find that these, while not always perfect, are good enough to get the layout right.

[Hatredman]

Hi,
I'm thinking about making piece of software for speeding up drawing perfboard and vero layouts. It would have library with components and user would drag&drop them over board. Also, it would have it's own format and ability to save to gif/jpg.
And of course, it would be freeware
Would this be useful, should I waste my time on this?
Thanks,
Branislav

WOW!

Almost 16 years!

Congrats, bancika!
You've raised a good kid!

[bancika]

Thanks, I was just thinking the same...it's crazy. Two more years and it will be able to drink in most of the world.

Why do my resistors keep folding over like this? There must be a setting I need to change, but I've looked around at everything and can't figure it out.

if you use mostly smaller 1/4w resistors, you can just take one resistor, double click, edit width and height and tick the checkboxes to the right of those two values...that will make them default for all future instances of resistor component...

[Hemmel]

I wonder how I'm doing? First time using DIYLC :



EDIT: Just noticed ... it's missing a piece or 2

[duck_arse]

in diylc, find the top left-most corner of your layout page. how far away from the top left-most edge of the board is it? the default new-file page size is absolutely huge - you need to drag your board to the upper corner, then resize the page in [right click] "edit project settings".

Hemmel, it's too small on too big. see above.

[guywonder44]

This would be super useful. I have tried to look for something like this without much luck and have had to rely on my crappy drawing skills to transfer a circuit to a stripboard

[roseblood11]

Am I the only one who still uses version 1, because of its simplicity and the clean look of the layouts?

[poiureza]

Come to think I've been using DIYLC for definitely more than 10 years
I do all my layouts in DIYLC before reaching out for the less user-friendly PCB printing programs.

A truly great piece of software you made there


PS : I use an old version because somehow the updates always mess with my user parts.

[roseblood11]

Please add the small boards that are used in vintage Vox amps. I use them for a lot of projects...
https://www.tube-town.net/ttstore/terminal-2-x-18.html

[jordileft]

I recently discovered DIY Layout Creator, as a user of ImageToPCB created a video showing of she combines both DIY Layout Creator and ImageToPCB to get her PCBs manufactured.

I made a post introducing ImageToPCB which includes that video in case any of you are interested:
https://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=131973.0

[Hatredman]

Just returned to the forum after some years of silence. Unfortunately, sometimes we have to let the guitar sit in silence to bring the bacon home. But anyway, first thing I did upon returning is coming here to get the newest version of DIYLC.

And now it *is* 18 years old!
It can now legally drink, marry, vote and go to jail.
Congrats, bancika!

[Ginsly]

Givin' this a whirl! Unless I missed it, is there a list of recommended component measurements that most people use for Vero/perf in DIYLC? It seems like the default sizing doesn't quite fit the way it would in practice, but again, I'm JUST starting to learn this! I mostly use 1/4 metal film resistors, box film caps, radial electros, and TO-92 transistors. For instance, the TO-92 default only straddles two copper tracks, where it would really need to reach three. I see where to change the sizing, but I'm concerned about making anything TOO much bigger or smaller. I figure there are probably good baseline values for these that people mostly use. Thanks!!

[bluebunny]

You can change the pitch of the transistor pins to fit the 0.1" grid (and make it a default).  And of course in real life you just splay the legs.

[Ginsly]

Totally! I just figure there's a set measurement for each component that will fit well on vero/perf specifically - thought I'd ask before I kinda just "eyeball" each one...

[Ginsly]

You can change the pitch of the transistor pins to fit the 0.1" grid (and make it a default).  And of course in real life you just splay the legs.

Ah! Yep this is what I need - how do I "globally" make that change for all components? Thanks!