[sdiy] Building on Pad Per Hole?

[Oren Leavitt]

I havn't tried this myself, but I am familiar with Eagle.
 From the Board view, click on the grid button and select a 'Size' of 
0.1 inches (or what ever units your pad-per-hole board is).
For perf board, don't bother trying to route copper traces, but rather 
move components around and click on the 'Ratsnest' button until the 
airwires look like they don't overlap so much.
PCBs or perf board, computers or pencil-n-paper - component placement is 
a rather iterative process.

HTH,
Oren

Rude 66 wrote:

>looking at the program now. for me this is also an interesting solution,
>because i have a hell of a time converting schematics to a board layout.
>one thing i don't understand about the program: all the examples show
>'normal' boards, i.e. with copper connections on the back. how do you make
>it show the result on pad per hole board? i'm obviously missing something..
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>r./
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>From: "cj3000" <cj3000 at gmx.de>
>To: "Charles Brodeur" <orange_juice_man_returns at yahoo.com>
>Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Building on Pad Per Hole?
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>>Hi Charles,
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>>as far as i know did TomG make his layouts the same way, maybe someone
>>in the list has still the files.
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>>An other way is to use a layout program like eagle light from
>>www.cadsoft.de and to make your own pad per hole board.
>>You just need to know a little bit (how to add a part, which layer,the
>>right grid etc.) and you can transport nearly every schematic into a pad
>>per hole board. If you don´t like to be the resistor on this place just
>>move it to an other, etc. You will see that its makes even fun. I am
>>also doing it when the board is small and needs to be fast finished. It
>>is much better than to start immediately, cause you ending in nowhere
>>land. You don`t need a printer nor chemicals and later when you want to
>>build more and bigger things you are familiar whith layouting.
>>
>>chriss
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