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Subject: Re: Reproducing existing board layouts

From: "AlienRelics" <alienrelics@...>
Date: 2012-04-11

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, DJ Delorie <dj@...> wrote:
>
>
> gEDA's PCB has an option to import an image as your background,
> specificially for this purpose.
>
> Note: the usual caveats about copyright etc apply, when considering
> "copying" a board this way.

Of course, with an orphaned product that may not be an issue.

The original poster may also try looking for updated schematics. I have a few Heathkit instruments, when I went looking for the manuals I discovered that people had done everything from slight mods to improve them, to entirely new replacement circuits and PCB patterns.

Here is the Electronic Survivor Shot sensor PCB, scanned and imported into CorelDraw, and redrawn:
http://www.polyphoto.com/tutorials/LaserTag/ESSSensor02.jpg

There are a lot of ways to accomplish this.

Steve Greenfield AE7HD