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OA47

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Posted: 05:02pm 23 Nov 2015

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Can some one recommend a free and simple vero /sea of holes drawing program. I would like to write up a simple project and would like to provide a vero type drawing for the component layout. ( it does have a mix of through hole and smd components)

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TassyJim

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Posted: 08:38pm 23 Nov 2015

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I used to use Veecad
http://veecad.com/

There is a free version available to play with.

Now I tend to use pen and paper but I must get back to using Veecad

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OA47

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Posted: 08:42pm 23 Nov 2015

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Thanks Jim, I will have a look at it.
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Pete Locke
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Posted: 10:42pm 23 Nov 2015

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Many hair cuts back, when I used to have hair, I spent an afternoon hand drawing twice scale 0.15 matrix holes on an A3 sheet. Got that laminated and used a fine tip white board marker for vero board layups. Mind you, that was back in the days of ZX81 computers. No help in the tech world back then. Worked a treat, still do something similar these days. Low tech sometimes is the way to go. No batteries required

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Posted: 03:01am 24 Nov 2015

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This is not quite "veroboard" but a "breadboard" layout tool, albeit rather basic.

http://www.picaxe.com/Software/Third-Party/PEBBLE/

I have checked it out but never used it, so no real comment on what you can do with it.

As for a good basic design package I use ExpressPCB as it can be used in the most simplest of way and includes through hole and SMD components, it also FREE.

Pete.Edited by Downwind 2015-11-25

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OA47

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Posted: 06:19pm 24 Nov 2015

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Thanks Pete(s) I currently use Diptrace for my cct and pcb layouts (after many, many years of using the dos version of Protel ) and have seen some members of the forum displaying breadboard images with their projects and have just built and tested a project on sea of holes prototype board that I would like to write up. I could still use Diptrace to represent the boards.

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