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Rikard Bosnjakovic
Guest
Greetings
As a newcomer to the wonderful world of electronics, I have recently
setup a minor electronics lab in my home and started to build a few
things. My tools and equipment exists of standard components (resistors,
capacitors, ICs, etc), soldering iron, a bunch of veroboards and a
multimeter. I do not, however, own an oscillator or any of those more
expensive tools like PCB-etching equipment and such. Atleast not yet.
As stated above, I'm using veroboards (stripboard and breadboard is a
synonyme for the same thing, i think) for building my circuits. I also
own a licence of Electronic Workbench (Multisim and Ultiboard are the
ones I use most frequently). However, since I do not own any etching
equipment Ultiboard is of less use for me since it can only do
PCB-layout/routing. I have contacted the developers to hear if there was
any possibility to make Ultiboard output to veroboards, but regretfully
enough UB is designed for PCB only, was the answer.
1. Is there any layout/routing-application that is able to output
layouts for veroboards? I have only found two cheap shareware-programs
on Google. Even if they work, they were terribly tedious to use (limited
amount of components etc). Is there no commercial or fully developed
program anywhere? A great plus would be if the program could read the
format that Multisim saves to, thus allowing me to save time by not
designing the whole circuit all over.
2. When constructing on veroboards, I often have the need in cutting the
boards to smaller shapes and I've found that it's pretty cumbersome
since I haven't found any good tips of how to do it the right way. For
new boards, I could take a small saw and shape it up without much
problems. But for new circuits that I haven't done before, cutting the
boards could lead to a too small board in the end, requiring me to start
it all over again.
Therefore I build new circuits on unmodified boards, so I get the whole
space to begin with and cut it down later. But here's the problem. When
I cut (not using a saw), the board usually tends to break up and it
seems it doesn't want to be cut in straight line. I've tried a long and
sharp knife, placing it between the lines of copper, and pushed hard.
But the board still tends to break up in pieces near the end.
Has anyone got a tip / link for me where I can read about how to cut
boards without any breaks?
Thanks in advance.
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Sincerely, | http://bos.hack.org/cv/
Rikard Bosnjakovic | Code chef - will cook for food
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As a newcomer to the wonderful world of electronics, I have recently
setup a minor electronics lab in my home and started to build a few
things. My tools and equipment exists of standard components (resistors,
capacitors, ICs, etc), soldering iron, a bunch of veroboards and a
multimeter. I do not, however, own an oscillator or any of those more
expensive tools like PCB-etching equipment and such. Atleast not yet.
As stated above, I'm using veroboards (stripboard and breadboard is a
synonyme for the same thing, i think) for building my circuits. I also
own a licence of Electronic Workbench (Multisim and Ultiboard are the
ones I use most frequently). However, since I do not own any etching
equipment Ultiboard is of less use for me since it can only do
PCB-layout/routing. I have contacted the developers to hear if there was
any possibility to make Ultiboard output to veroboards, but regretfully
enough UB is designed for PCB only, was the answer.
1. Is there any layout/routing-application that is able to output
layouts for veroboards? I have only found two cheap shareware-programs
on Google. Even if they work, they were terribly tedious to use (limited
amount of components etc). Is there no commercial or fully developed
program anywhere? A great plus would be if the program could read the
format that Multisim saves to, thus allowing me to save time by not
designing the whole circuit all over.
2. When constructing on veroboards, I often have the need in cutting the
boards to smaller shapes and I've found that it's pretty cumbersome
since I haven't found any good tips of how to do it the right way. For
new boards, I could take a small saw and shape it up without much
problems. But for new circuits that I haven't done before, cutting the
boards could lead to a too small board in the end, requiring me to start
it all over again.
Therefore I build new circuits on unmodified boards, so I get the whole
space to begin with and cut it down later. But here's the problem. When
I cut (not using a saw), the board usually tends to break up and it
seems it doesn't want to be cut in straight line. I've tried a long and
sharp knife, placing it between the lines of copper, and pushed hard.
But the board still tends to break up in pieces near the end.
Has anyone got a tip / link for me where I can read about how to cut
boards without any breaks?
Thanks in advance.
--
Sincerely, | http://bos.hack.org/cv/
Rikard Bosnjakovic | Code chef - will cook for food
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