Re: gEDA-user: PCB for veroboard layout?

[Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn@bjerkem.de>]

On Wednesday 11 June 2003 01:17, Terry Porter wrote:
> Can you elaborate please ?
>
> By 'veroboards' do you mean the off the shelf pre etched and drilled copper
> clad boards with rows of straight lines of copper drilled every 0.1 inch ?

Excactly. They may have a different name in different countries. (Just like 
"Tesa" film in Germany)

Normally these prototyping boards are laid out on paper, if at all, and the 
components placed and soldered on the run. After a round with a milling 
machine I discovered that the time spent on the first board probably exceeded 
the time I would have needed for a prototyping board. 

I've done many veros by paper and tried to find a software to put it on the 
computer (nice for sharing on the net, in pdf etc.) The ones I have found are 
not worth mentioning and I have to learn a new schematic and pcb tool with 
less flexibility and crap libraries.

Needed is a plot of top side with component and jumper placement and bottom 
with line breaks. The hole grid should be visible as light gray dots (not to 
obscure components) with every fifth row and column numbered in order to 
localize placement and cutting. For the outline of the board, I guess one 
could make a component without too much work and lock it in place in order 
not to accidentally move it, as it would cover all the other components.

Automatic placement of components is not a must.

-- 
Svenn