So this new component is always available. After that you can add this component to the library. If a special component is missing, you can easily draw it by yourself just on your layout. The library is displayed in a well sorted treeview, so you don’t have to spend much time for searching a component. The component-library is already filled with many common used components, either in SMD or in conventional through-hole-technology. Sprint-Layout even creates HPGL files for isolation milling for owners of a CNC milling machine.
Commercial PCB manufacturers often support Sprint-Layout file format or Gerber/Excellon export formats. This matches the new motto of Sprint-Layout: Just Draw It!Īn excellent printout offers various options for DIY production.
Work completely free, just like on a sheet of paper. Place pads or draw tracks just wherever you want - there are no limitations or restrictions. Sprint-Layout gets you started immediately. You can concentrate to the essential thing: The optimized PCB design. The logical and understandable structure of Sprint-Layout is very easy to learn. Sprint-Layout with its marvellous handling is simply unbeatable! There isn´t any “ballast” making it difficult to keep the overview.
If you need a software to design your PCB’s easy and fast, you can’t get away from Sprint-Layout! Many thousand satisfied users can’t be mistaken. Approx 3mb download.Sprint-Layout - this software is getting more and more famous. Sprint Layout viewer This is linked directly to the suppliers download. Print this file and accurately measure the lengths in both directions and enter the calculated calibration numbers in the boxes. there is a cross of 100mm in each direction.
To help with this calibration, download and open the 'Printer calibration file'. Nov 2017 - As of the latest update, the printer calibration factors now save and do not have to be entered every time. This correction factor will not save, you have to enter it every time you restart the program. The printer will then print true to scale. In that case enter a factor of 100 mm / 101 mm = 0.99 for correction (.990099 to be precise). Some printers may need a calibration to produce printouts that are exactly true to scale.Įxample: A line has a length of 100 mm but the printer produces a line with a length of 101 mm. You can explore the other tabs and find out what they do at your leisure. If your print comes out the wrong size, read the information under Calibrate Tab below. Rather than write a whole screed on the various options available, I have labeled the pic with text so you can get the print out of your computer as quickly as possible. When you click PRINT, you will be presented with a page like the image below. Use the PRINT SETUP option to select your printer and PRINT, obviously, to print the file. Also, any ground plane area's that may be in the pcb do not show, but they WILL print. Unlike the main drawing program, the colours you see when a file opens are not changeable. Once running, use the FILE menu to open the pcb file.
The viewer does not install anything, so just put it in any folder you wish and click (or double click) the exe to start it. Unfortunately, the help file of the viewer is sadly lacking, so I have put some notes here to help you. Everybody has their own favorite method of making pcb's. For the actual process of making pcb's, there is already plenty of information on the subject, on the internet, so I will not repeat it here.
There is a free viewer available to download below, which will allow you to view and print these files if you want to make your own pcb's. Rather than mess around creating pdf's of pcb's, I will post the Sprint Layout file.