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Subject: 
Re: making your own handyboard.
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Fri, 19 May 2000 00:13:45 GMT
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Charles Hacker <c.hacker@mailbox.gu!AvoidSpam!.edu.au>
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Vic,

Lots of programs handel Gerber files.  They are the standard for
print / storage of PCB board files.

If you don't have such a program, then download one form the numerous
freeware/shareware sites.
Most electrical type programs would give this capability.

If you don't find a freeware/shareware program, then try the demos for
some commercial programs.
i.e.
MicroSim, PSpice - the PCBBoards package
MicroCap 5 - mix mode simulator
Ivex  - WinBoard , (also includes a separate Gerbtool program)
etc.
(Try searching the web for the above names).


> Hi. I'd like to make my own handyboard if I can find all the parts in my
> city. But I have a problem with making the PCB... I have a friend who has a
> plotter and could draw it, but the layout files are GIFs and he uses Autocad
> (old computer, old autocad)
> 
> now, the layout  files ar also in gerber format. what is this format? is
> there a way to conver them in an old autocad format, or to find some
> freeware layout program that reads it? there's no way I'm drawing that by
> hand...
> 
> --
> You do not wish to know anything, you wish only to speak.
> That which you know, you ignore because it is inconvenient.
> That which you do not know, you invent.


Charles Hacker
Lecturer in Electronics, Computing and Physics
School of Engineering
Griffith University - Gold Coast
PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre
Southport Queensland 9726
Australia.
Email - C.Hacker@mailbox.gu.edu.au
Ph. (07) 5594 8670
Fax.(07) 5594 8065



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Hi. I'd like to make my own handyboard if I can find all the parts in my city. But I have a problem with making the PCB... I have a friend who has a plotter and could draw it, but the layout files are GIFs and he uses Autocad (old computer, old (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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