I ended up paying someone else to route it for me. The downside was that it had more than a bit of learning curve, it sometimes crashed and the autorouter was horrible, next to useless, at least for my project. It also seems PCB houses or pool services accept Eagle brd files directly and make design check files available for Eagle. What was good about it was that it seems every maker type place has Eagle libraries available for their parts, another guy who helped me with it had Eagle since its so popular and yet another guy was able to make libraries for me, again because its so popular. I did a pretty major design using the hobbyist version of Eagle, which I paid for. I have searched here and with Google but didn't find much side by side comparison. Talking to an SD card from a PIC 16F1825 microcont.I promise, I'm not trying to start a holy war.Reading and writing to a single sector on an SD ca.
Another video interruption - serial audio with a P.DipTrace for home etching, gerber export, 3d views.Large format vinyl cutter at BuildBrighton Foison C24.Firstly, you can create homebrew boards easily and - using the ExpressPCB method - print to a PDF file using CutePDF and flip in Inkscape, reading for printing onto some press-n-peel. We much prefer the ExpressPCB method: draw a schematic then link it to the PCB designer - so long as the number of pads in the PCB layout software matches the number of pins in the schematic, you can use pretty much any component footprint to represent any component in the schematic.Īs a result, we still turn to ExpressPCB whenever we need to "knock out" a few boards for home etching.īut since we've had to design some more boards for manufacture (for a recent alarm clocks project) we've returned back to DipTrace to generate more gerbers.Īnd we've found that DipTrace has some pretty cool features - even for the homebrew enthusiast.
It's easy to use, has a massive library of components, but uses an approach similar to Eagle when placing components in the schematic, you have to choose the "correct" component with the appropriate footprint while you're drawing the schematic. We first came across it while designing PCBs for our miniature guitars last year - changing over from ExpressPCB because we needed to generate gerber files to have some circuit boards manufactured online.
The more time we spend with DipTrace, the more we like it, here at Nerd Towers.
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