Homebrew PCBs

Hi Royce,  while I'm new at all this and no expert.  Why can't you make four layer boards by the following?
 
Make a netlist with the traces that you want on layer one and save them.
 
Make a netlist with layer two traces and save that.
 
Do the same for all the other layers.
 
Print and etch all your layers separately and then glue or bond them together.  As long as your doing your own etching the end board won't know the difference.
 
You would have to put registration points on each layer. and you would have to print test sheets to make sure the registration points were all the same distance apart.  you might have to name each layer different to get around the two layer limit of the software.
 
But the software wouldn't know it was the same schematic.
 
Just my dumb take on a way to do it,  Cary

--- On Tue, 11/3/09, roycepipkins <royce.pipkins@...> wrote:


From: roycepipkins <royce.pipkins@...>
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Schematic Capture/PCB Creation program of choice?
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 1:35 PM


  



More power to you on the better tutorials. 

I been wanting to switch to KiCad to get free 4 layer design, but I expect it will be quite a learning curve. So I've been procrastinating and sticking with the free 2 layer DipTrace that takes about 15 minutes to learn to the point of significant usability.

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