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

[hilbi]

may i suggest to build in a select all feature? so you can select all components at once and move them.

[bancika]

already exists, press ctrl + A while explorer is in focus or press button above right arrow.
It's all written in tutorials...  

[hilbi]

ok great bancika

[stm]

A funny thing I noticed with the transformer component is that when in PCB it doesn't add automatically the pads.  This is inconvenient, since if I want to move the component around manually placed pads will not follow unless all are selected by beforehand.

An issue that might appear when the center tap of the transformer doesn't fall exactly into the grid.  In this case I'd suggest not placing the center tap pad. In case the center tap is required then you should select an odd number of rows/columns for the secondary of the transformer.

[DryRoasted]

Just an idea which would really help me, I can't remember if its been mentioned already, but when I print PnP it only prints 1 copy, it would be really useful if you could specify the number of PnP to print.

[bancika]

STM,
I forgot to make it auto-create pads for transformer, will do it. As for CT on odd sized transformers, I noticed it and was planning to fix it but I just forgot...to many projects working on 
DryRoasted,
will think about it.
Cheers!

[DryRoasted]

cheers!

[bancika]

I grabbed some time (making Dr Boogey) to fix those two errors STM noticed...

[stm]

Great!

It would be nice if sometime you could add the trimpot with all pins in a row seen here (to the left), as this would complete all possible trimpot patterns:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=583f81c54ba9aff959b82c713541fec1&topic=44838.msg345003#msg345003

Cheers!

[RLBJR65]

I use those in line trimers to. Got a sweet deal on some 10K, 25K, 50K, 100K multi turn trim pots.

[gaussmarkov]

here's a suggestion for the future:  how about a breadboard layout template?

thanks for a great contribution to diy, gm

[KerryF]

^-Yea I have wanted that.  You can basically just do that with veroboard and cut traces, and perfboard.

[bancika]

allrighty, inline trimmers are next on program
About breadboard I'm not sure, I've never seen one nor I know how it works

[d95err]

My Sophos Antivirus program reports the DIY Layout Creator (v1.9) as a possible Malware program and puts it in quarantine. The file did not contain a virus, but the heuristic methods of the virus scanner thought it looked like it does things that typically malware does. Looks like a false positive from Sophos. I submitted the exe and told them it's not a Malware program.

[pyrop]

First of all this program is awesome and extremely useful.
One suggestion I can offer is coloured pads for pcb, perf & stripboards to indicate locations for off board wiring (input, output, pots etc) and the description for each pad located with the component list.

pyrop

[bancika]

d95err, it's probably because it drags history.xml file from my web server to check if new version is availble and list new features. Other than that I couldn't find any reason for such behaviour. I'm using AVG Free and it doesn't report it.
pyrop, interesting idea. The thing is, I'd like to keep current concept (each component can have name, value and unit) which leaves only one field unused for pads (unit). I could put colors in dropdown list so user can pick. And you can always add text component with description. Of course, when PnP is printed everything remains black.
Cheers

[d95err]

d95err, it's probably because it drags history.xml file from my web server to check if new version is availble and list new features. Other than that I couldn't find any reason for such behaviour. I'm using AVG Free and it doesn't report it.

Advanced (expensive) antivirusprograms have better algorithms to detect suspicious behavior, so it's not strange that AVR Free doesn't detect it. My guess is other commercial antivirus products could react too. There was no problem until recently. I guess the antivirus added some new detection algorithms to the antivirus engine which caused it to react.

The antivirus software detects the exe file as a potential threat immediately when it tries to access the file (e.g. when installing), not when the program is running.  As it stands now, I can't use your software at all unless I turn off the antivirus (not wise...). Perhaps you could make the history feature optional (e.g with an option to check for updates only when triggered by the user).

The DIY Layout Creator is a great tool, so I would really like to be able to use it.

[bancika]

it is triggered by user, your AV probably scans EXE source code and find suspicios calls. Is it possible to add it to white list, many advanced AVs have that option

[beer]

Hi ...
First , thanks for the great software.

i'm still having problems with the right mouse button.
it won't work at home.
I tried to install on my work computer and there is no problems there.
did any of you find a fix for this ??

Then a suggestion.
i've used the software for a couple of perfboards , and two times now ,
the size of a capacitor or electrolyte has fooled me. looking fine and dandy on the screen , but ,
on the real thing the capacitor/electrolyte did'nt fit and i had to let it "hoover" above the other components.
So , if it is possible to choose , maybe from 2 or 3 sizes , when using capacitors/electrolytes it would be killer.

Thanks

[bancika]

First, thanks 
I've been thinking and maybe it's not so big deal to make few different electrolyte sizes available.
And about right click I really have no idea. Does right click work in other apps?
Cheers