Certainly sounds doable but I probably won't be trying it...
I made only a few boards back then and dropped most of it for some years - When I went back to electronics and wanted a PCB I went straight to EDA software and never looked back.
As you no doubt know, there are many advantages with EDA software, most of which can help from making silly annoying mistakes, and of course as with most software you get undo\redo and the ability to change anything as much as you like - that would be a big headache if you did it by hand.
That said, I do quite like the look of the curvy, flowing style of the layouts from the old methods.
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "AlienRelics" <alienrelics@...> wrote:
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jferrell13@> wrote:
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> > RE:
> > > When I was a kid I started out drawing PCBs by hand with graph paper. No way I would go back to that now!
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> > Actually, I think you can. One of the things on my "To Do List"
> > is to layout a PC board on some over size graph paper and reduce it in the copier to the proper size for toner transfer. I am thinking that I will use a dot grid and leave it in the final transfer so the finished board has reference dots for any after thoughts.
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> > de W8CCW
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> That is one way that I made boards, although I was using photosensitized PCBs. I'd lay them out at 2x or 4x size. I figured out what exact percentage reductions on a particular copy machine, since 50% or 25% were not exact.
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> I would do the work on blueline graph paper, the lines were a particular blue designed not to show up on photocopiers.
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> Why would you want to go back to that?
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> Steve Greenfield AE7HD
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