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

[bancika]

Hello guys, I've made few changes to make things easier with offboard wiring.

• board is moved 4 stripes below, guess there's enough place now
• component list can be turned off to leave space for components below board
• to compesnate loss of component list I added "Export BOM" function that created TXT file with all components listed

Hope you like it 

[uan]

i've problem with trimmer..
i create my layout using previous version. When i load it using current version, my trimmers was 4 grid above but its solder pad was in correct position. I tried to move down the trimmer to the correct position but the solder pad which is already in correct grid follows to moving down.

one more thing, my DIYLC often freeze when i want to minimize, maximize or even moving the window left and right. I'm using Pentium 4 HT with 512mb memory.. i think its enough to run your software..

btw, it helps me alot!

[bancika]

Hello,
thanks for reporting bug, it's been fixed now along with another one. As for freezing, it's probably caused by slow drawing on large layouts, just give it a second or two...
Cheers

[orgaqualia]

Great software! Thanks.

[Xavier]

All the updates are great, Bancika. I'm having a really good time by using your software.

Thumbs up for you !!

[bancika]

I'm glad you do my friend...looking forward to your layouts 

[mdc]

Dude this software kicks serious butt now! I can't imagine what I would do without it now. Thanks heaps. I uploaded a non guitar related layout (dazer) to your site. More to come. Thanks again and keep up the awesome work! Always look forward to seeing what is added with the updates! 

[skiraly017]

Has anything changed with the "Render PNP" feature. I used to be able to render the PNP image, convert it to an Adobe PDF file and send it off to my board guy without having to resize the image. Now if I render the PNP, it comes out substantially larger than intended (page scaling is turned off). If I try to resize it, the image loses its resolution. Any ideas? Thanks.

[bancika]

mdc, thanks 
skiraly017, I haven't changed render routines for a long time...

[skiraly017]

skiraly017, I haven't changed render routines for a long time...

Strange. The software has been through a few updates since that last time I had to render a PNP so I can't even tell you what the last version was that did not display this behavior. I'll keep playing around with it and see what happens.

[stm]

Hi, I have 3 observations today:

1) The rendered PCB image should be created with a "bits-per-pixel" or "bpp" value of 200 DPI.  Currently it is 96 DPI, which is the usual windows desktop resolution. If the resolution is set to 200 DPI for both X and Y axis, then most softwares should be able to interpret the real image dimensions automatically.

2) After you included the wires in the versions, a text drawing bug started appearing on the working screen (application window).  The right half of the title and subtitle texts of the circuit are clipped in the window if they are large enough.  The image attached at the end illustrates this.  On the other hand, when rendering the design the texts appear OK in the GIF.

3) Today I pressed a "check for update" option and indicated a new version was available dated Oct 18th.  I was supossed to have that version, however I downloadd it again and reinstalled it.  When running the program after this still indicates there is a new version available.

[bancika]

1) will think about it
2) strange, I tried now with very long text and nothing was wrong. 
3) I probably forgot to write correct version in software...it has to match with version written in update file on site. Next one will be correct

Tnx

[skiraly017]

Just out of curiousity, is anyone else having issues with the PNP rendering in the correct size? Just trying to figure out if it's user error. Thanks.

[zpyder]

Firstly, thanks for making this software available to all of us bancika- a super valuable tool!

Second... transformers.  I started to search through this thread for mention of it, but seeing as it's 37 pages long, I gave up.  It doesn't seem that there are transfomers available within the software to be placed.  Has this been addressed/pondered?

cheers,
zpyder

[bancika]

yep, it exists for more than 5 versions. Download latest version and try out
By the way, next version will have little thicker wires (for 2 pixels), it looks much better and more realistic.
Cheers

[Ronsonic]

I've just started experimenting with this program and am really liking it.

For the simple - ish designs in my analog audio world this makes a lot more sense than creating component profiles in something like Eagle.

Many thanks.

Ron

[DryRoasted]

Heres an idea, add a type of text object that appears on the PNP, kinda so you can put your name or the circuits name on the PCB.

[markm]

Like this?

[bancika]

why not, it's only bold mirrored text

[zpyder]

bancika-
why not make the "Traces" available on Perf boards as well as PCB?  It is possible to place traces on a perf project, but only by trickery.  The leads are so tiny looking and tend to blend into edges of other components like IC's.  MarkM's perf layout gallery (http://aronnelson.com/gallery/album77) includes many perf layouts using your software that utilize traces.  I think they look great.  He's done this (I'm assuming) by either creating the project as a PCB layout and then changing the board to perf when complete, or laying all the traces before placing components - as either method will allow you to get traqces onto a perf project.

cheers,
zpyder