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

[GodSaveMetal]

Well I do IT sometimes; is it for my interest of course I read IT!!!!!

[Perrow]

Well I do IT sometimes; is it for my interest of course I read IT!!!!!

Well, I won't say I read them (and I didn't, did I ) but occasionally I look things up.

If you're gonna write something, make sure you write things that people might look up. The checkboxes are something I think I would've looked up, had I known of the existence of a manual

[GodSaveMetal]

YEAH a manual for the ultimate version!!! HURRAY!!!!!!!

[~arph]

The trouble with manuals is that you have to keep them up to date.. Also, the programmer can't write it as he/she has a differnt approach to the software made.

[bancika]

Version 3.0.4 is released.

If you're running older version 3.0.x, you should be able to see the yellow light bulb in the bottom left corner indicating that updates are available. Click on it gives the list of changes and download link. From now on, I'll keep that feed updated.

After I released 3.0.4, I found that editing numerical values is messed up. I'll fix that in the next round, but there should be enough good stuff in this version to make it worth checking out.

http://code.google.com/p/diy-layout-creator/downloads/detail?name=diylc-3.0.4-alpha.zip&can=2&q=

Cheers,
Bane

[snarblinge]

wow this thing is beautiful, churs.

found it easier to stick with the old old one until I became solely a mac user, now this thing is stunning.

thank you

[bancika]

glad you like it, stay tuned for the updates. Component API is fluctuating less and less, so I'll start adding more components soon.
Last night I added resistor color codes, looks pretty cool 

Cheers

[~arph]

I just had a small testdrive.. Very nice!!  I like what you did with the wires, I just implemented the same (the bezier cvontrol points) 
I like the individual component alpha too!
What are you using for graphics?

I'm impressed!

[bancika]

thanks, it's good old G2D

[~arph]

Wow that is a lot of work then, good job on the performance too. I'm using OpenGL (JOGL) takes some time to get used to it but it works very nice as well.

[Perrow]

Coming along nicely. Things I'm missing at the moment (that I don't know you're working on)

* Ability to change the alpha of a selected set of components.
* Hide grid (could be an option when saving to png or pdf).

[~arph]

I miss:

Zooming with the scroll wheen..
Panning with the scroll wheel pressed

[GodSaveMetal]

It's compatible whit the v1!!! yeah that stuff it's great!!!!! please actualise the 100 of components!!!!! thank for your work!!!!!!

[bancika]

Coming along nicely. Things I'm missing at the moment (that I don't know you're working on)

* Ability to change the alpha of a selected set of components.
* Hide grid (could be an option when saving to png or pdf).

you can change alpha of multiple components, just select them and go to edit. The problem is that all of their alpha values need to be the same before you edit. I'll think of a better solution. For now it's done like that because I can't show alpha value if there are two or more different values in the set.

Grid is automatically hidden when you export. Do you think it should be there?

Cheers,
Bane

[pinkphiloyd]

I just downloaded this and I'm playing with it and it's very cool.  I'm very new to this though and I want to play with a bunch of stuff.  Does anybody have idea what was used to do this?  I like the large, clean, look.  It's easy to see for me.  I stole this image from 11 gauge at tdpri.  I asked over there, but I'm afraid a response may be a bit slow in forthcoming.  I'm not trying to detract from the program in this thread, it seems really great.  I'd like to play with both.

[fatfoohy]

Perhaps im totally retarded.......but i just downloaded 3.0.4, and i can't use any of the version 1 files, and there aren't any transistors.  Also, i cant run version 1, i just got my computer upgraded with windows 7, and it just says No Active Document, and Failed To Set Data For " " when i try to open the program, i've tried reinstalling it multiple times

[GodSaveMetal]

It's a beta prove program there's no tranies and I put a DIY layout of version 1 and can read it; I have a widows XP version sp2 and it's fine for me!!!!

[Barcode80]

Perhaps im totally retarded.......but i just downloaded 3.0.4, and i can't use any of the version 1 files, and there aren't any transistors.  Also, i cant run version 1, i just got my computer upgraded with windows 7, and it just says No Active Document, and Failed To Set Data For " " when i try to open the program, i've tried reinstalling it multiple times

2 things:

right click on the shortcut/file and go to properties. go to the compatibility tab, and select Windows XP for the compatibility mode

also, on that same tab at the bottom, select "run as administrator."

that should fix it.

[bancika]

it opens v1 files but only reads those components that are available at the moment.
Btw, I added two type of transistors and LED, stay tuned 

[mhartington]

So i just downloaded it and when i tried to open it I got a message that said there was an error and the file couldn't be open. I read the note on the site about having to do something with the MAC terminal but...to quote Mccoy in some sense, im a diy pedal maker, not a computer exert  How do fix the mac problem?