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

bancika · April 20, 2016, 05:54:50 AM

Just a heads up - thanks to a contributor, there's a new release of DIYLC available for download. Changes are

[Bug Fix] Issue with losing saved user configuration
[Bug Fix] Issue with disabled "Save as Template" context menu item problem, as well as issue with strange rotation and probably few more
[Bug Fix] Undo steps kept after opening a new file
[New Feature] Transistors can be rotated and flipped vertically
[New Feature] DIL ICs can show pin numbers
[New Feature] Display both component value and name or neither of them
[New Feature] Potentiometer schematic symbol added

Can be found at https://github.com/bancika/diy-layout-creator/releases

Cheers

Ben Lyman · April 26, 2016, 05:24:01 PM

First off, thanks bancika not only for making this but for trying to help me download the new version. Still failing so I thought I would ask the community here if anyone else has had the same problem and hopefully the solution for this.
I have MAC OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 with the latest Java 8 installed and I allowed downloads from anywhere. I can download the new DIYLC but it won't open.
EDIT: Fixed! Thanks bancika!

GGBB · May 04, 2016, 10:54:06 AM

Is anyone else having this same problem:

In versions 3.29 and 3.30 on Windows 7 Home Premium, there is only one level of undo. In 3.28 there was a much higher number. Is this a bug or is it configuration, or just me? Makes the program totally unusable - no exaggeration - so going back to 3.28 for now.

Johnfreeth · May 04, 2016, 03:25:09 PM

Same Here

Ben Lyman · May 04, 2016, 11:43:38 PM

Yes. mine too. I wouldn't say unusable in my case, but I do miss that feature a bit

whoisalhedges · May 05, 2016, 05:41:55 AM

Glad to see this thread - I downloaded this last week, haven't been able to get it to do squat.

I'm at work now, but when I get home, I'll need to pop over here for step-by-step instructions....

bancika · May 09, 2016, 09:27:36 AM

I'll check Undo, it's not an intended change.

bancika · May 09, 2016, 10:11:29 AM

yeah, it's a bug. I fixed and deployed, please check.
Cheers

GGBB · May 09, 2016, 10:33:13 AM

Quote from: bancika on May 09, 2016, 10:11:29 AM
yeah, it's a bug. I fixed and deployed, please check.
Cheers

Ahhh. Back to normal. Thanks!

Ben Lyman · May 11, 2016, 12:14:53 AM

And a fix for OSX too please? Like I said, not a deal breaker for me but still...

bancika · May 11, 2016, 10:56:30 AM

OSX version is fixed as well

monksanto · May 25, 2016, 10:24:09 AM

Why don't my vero's look like tagboardfx's? Lol... Everything looks different? My cut-outs are just a line, not a nice clear red cross. Resistors, capacitors... wtf... it's all over the place? Do I have to change stuff, templates etc? Why isn't default to look like tagboard's style? Lol sorry...

GGBB · May 25, 2016, 10:38:09 AM

Quote from: monksanto on May 25, 2016, 10:24:09 AM
Why don't my vero's look like tagboardfx's? Lol... Everything looks different? My cut-outs are just a line, not a nice clear red cross. Resistors, capacitors... wtf... it's all over the place? Do I have to change stuff, templates etc? Why isn't default to look like tagboard's style? Lol sorry...

I'm fairly sure that tagboardfx doesn't use DIYLC (version 3 anyway).

Double-click your cutout and uncheck "Cut between holes" then check the box to the right of that to make it the default setting for cutouts.

~arph · May 25, 2016, 01:45:26 PM

I think they do.. Otherwise they would have changed the ic pin color too.. Which you can not in diylc.

It is s matter of taste. You can easily change the look of all components

GGBB · May 25, 2016, 03:24:05 PM

Resistor shape is different. Maybe an older version?

EDIT:

It appears that there are different contributors who each have different looking boards. Alex's don't really look like DIYLC 3.x, so maybe he uses an older version. Mirosol, Travis, and Zach all look like they use 3.x but each one looks quite different.

monksanto · May 26, 2016, 11:11:03 AM

Quote from: GGBB on May 25, 2016, 10:38:09 AMDouble-click your cutout and uncheck "Cut between holes" then check the box to the right of that to make it the default setting for cutouts.

Ah excellent, thank you! Don't know how I missed that!

Quote from: ~arph on May 25, 2016, 01:45:26 PMYou can easily change the look of all components

I know you can adjust length/width/colour etc, but how do you make that "dumbbell" sort of shape resistor like they use at tagboardfx? (Sorry if this is obvious & I am missing it)...

duck_arse · May 26, 2016, 11:42:44 AM

can you show us one of these dumbells?

monksanto · May 26, 2016, 01:02:23 PM

Sure, Duck Arse! Like this here -- [note the blue resistor shape & the brown caps (the defaults are rectangular for both?)] --

GGBB · May 26, 2016, 04:26:52 PM

Those are the layouts by Alex which have the different resistor shape. You can't change the resistor shape, so I'm pretty sure those aren't done with DIYLC 3.x.

monksanto · May 26, 2016, 05:56:28 PM

Quote from: GGBB on May 26, 2016, 04:26:52 PM
Those are the layouts by Alex which have the different resistor shape. You can't change the resistor shape, so I'm pretty sure those aren't done with DIYLC 3.x.

Ah gotcha GGBB, yes I just read actually that they used DIYLC 2.x. No matter, it's just cosmetic. Thanks for your help.

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