[sdiy-interim] Reverse engineering printed circuit boards

[Paul Perry]

My scanner recently had a bookcase fall on it, so I've been 
looking at scanners......
I didn't take details (they were out of my price range by an
order of magnitude or two) but I believe there are scanners now 
that correct for the distortion. And also have a much greater depth 
of field (they are called, with characteristic advertising
hyperbola, "3-D scanners" though it is just a scanner).
Doubtless you could find a graphics place that would scan for 
a price.

As to the question of SMT - if it works for DIP, it will work for 
SMT. Because, althought the SMT is very tiny, the errors are 
shrunk as well ;-D

It is, of course, illegal to copy commercial boards this way.
Think "copyright".

paul perry Melbourne Australia


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