Homebrew PCBs

One problem I feel when working with  PCB CAD-programs is that you can easily 
operate and design in an X-Y plane but tubesockets and ICs in TO5 cans have their 
connections rather polar oriented with a radius and a fixed angle between the pins.
And I have never seen any program that fixes that.

/M

PS Even got PCB sockets for the odd 12-pin compactron tubes. On the other hand I always 
do my tubeprojects P2P between sockets and solder stands.




  >

  Simple measurement technique:
  Take a bottle of ink and place on leads of tube. Take a piece of paper
  and blot the tube down on to it. Creating the part really isnt that
  hard its just annoying, which is the next step: Take whatever you use
  to measure angle degrees and write down the degrees. Then measure the
  radius of 1 pin on one side to the other side. Enter the left pin as
  negative and the right pin as positive. Remember to set the origin as
  0,0 for a the middle, invisible, refrence pin. A free program called
  ProgeCAD will let you enter data like this, just remember to enter a
  negative angle when going clockwise. Save as DXF or whatever and then
  import. Its REAL simple and will save you 300 dollars. The whole
  process should take only about 30 minutes.
  If you get the numbers for me I could make the DXF file for you
  (free), then you will just have to import it to whatever program your
  using.



   

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