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Subject: Re: pcb video

From: g3oou@...
Date: 2012-04-22

Hi All

> When I was a kid I started out drawing PCBs by hand with graph paper. No
way I would go back to that now!

I still use that method having got used to it over the years on both small
and large boards and having developed a habit of drawing the circuit
diagram in a logical manner the layout mostly falls out from that. Also I do not
like leaving critical RF layouts to an auto-router.

Diptrace does have a facility for laying out PCBs manually when viewed from
the solder side so that aligns nicely with the graph paper method that I
am used to.

Regards

Bob

Bob F Burns
C Eng, FIET, MSE
Amateur Radio Callsign: G3OOU
Registered RSGB Instructor
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