Aleksander goofed and forgot to include a TO-220 in the TO library.
For the moment just choose the Connect1 library and use CONSIP-3-1.
Wont give you the silkscreen outline of it laying down etc but you
get the holes at least.
You can see the routing in HandRoute. QCad has component placement
and routing in two different modules. If you decide to move a
component in the middle of routing there is a file menu item to call
PCBEdit without losing your existing routing.
QCad's only real disadvantage is that it doesn't work quite the same
way as just about anything else I've tried. Took me a week or so to
get into the swing of things but now there's no way I'd go back to
anything else.
Check your email, I sent you a message. I can answer lots of your
QCad questions for ya.
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Mucha" <dave_mucha@y...>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> not sure where to turn, but I'm having 2 dumb problems with Q-cad.
>
> #1 finding a standard TO-220 description for a TIP-120 that will
lay
> flat, actually I don't have any TO-220 cases. : (
>
>
> Second is a view of the board with traces showing.
>
>
> I am hoping that someone on this list might offer a URL as this is
> where the program was recomended.
>
>
>
> Since it is OT, direct responses are welcome, but if the free
vierson
> has such limitations, THAT would be good for the group to know.
>
> Dave