[sdiy] pcb

[Colin Fraser]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Brock Russell
> Sent: 31 August 2001 21:54
> To: synth-diy
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] pcb
>
> I use Paul Fincato's bitmap to pcb converter. This is a
> freeware Windoze
> program that outputs a rasterized image Protel text pcb file
> that can be
> loaded into most pcb cad programs. Unfortunately, Paul's
> website is gone
> but if someone has space to post a 309k file I will be happy
> to pass it on.

Cool...
I can put it up if anyone else wants it.
I'll be interested to see what sort of quality it can manage, and how much
work is left to be done.

> Can't be done? Technology has let us down?
> Twenty years ago I was laying out boards with tape and Bishop
> pads, 15
> years ago I used Smartwork on a slow PC clone and today I use
> Protel 99SE
> on a zippy P3 and regularly turn out multilayer boards with 200+ pin
> components with 0.5 millimeter lead pitch. I can even make a
> usable board
> from a scanned image.
> I can send gerber files for multilayer boards to a board
> house and have
> finished product in my hands within 24 hours. I can get almost any
> component in small quantity delivered in 48 hours.
> We have come a long, long way in twenty years.

You still aint living on the moon tho'...

Colin f