[sdiy] osx pcb jpg and other TLA

[KA4HJH]

>> Is there a PCB layout program for Mac OSX that will allow you
>> to load in
>> a graphic file as a guide to trace an existing board? I mean, can you
>> take a PCB foil from a magazine page, scan it, load it into
>> some program
>> and trace it to be manufactured by a pro board house?
>>
>> it seems that transfering my hundreds of Illustrator files visually
>> could be risky at best and hopeless at worst.
>
>You can run Eagle on Mac OSX. There are user language programs for Eagle
>You can download for free that let you import BMP and DXF. That way you
>Can route over the graphics if you put them in a separate layer when you
>
>Import them.
>
>You can also try to write a program (in Eagle ULP or other programming
>Language) that will read your illustrator files (EPS?) and output a
>.SCR file (Eagle Script) that will route all the traces. It's probably
>Not easy, but very useful later on and I think it should be possible.

If anyone gets something like this to work please let us know on-list.
Thanks. All my old boards were done in Illustrator 3.1 on a Mac Plus.

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Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"