![]() ![]() ![]() I've used it many times for simulations, but never for PCBs, and the layout program is a bit different. Laser printer? What's that? I fooled around with kicad for a bit and couldn't find the proper commands, though no doubt it'll do it somewhere. Anyway, one of the problems there was that it required custom driver software for a pen plotter (!) to output a print which was to scale. That was also the first computer we'd ever had in the department with a mouse. Back in 1983 when we found that an easy way to buy a computer without weeks of admin paperwork was to mark it as a "schematic drawing tool" we had a very rudimentary piece of software which allowed you to generate repeating patterns with a couple of mouse clicks. Yeah, using a scaled drawing program works fine it just took longer than I thought it should to generate repeating rows and they're not easily scalable, which is why I thought of a CAD or PCB program. ![]() Faster if there's something semi-automated so I can print out updates quickly. Yeah, I could lay it out with a ruler, but then if I calculated wrong with my initial estimate, I'll have to do it all over again. If they'd been 0.1" center, I could have used a piece of perfboard, but noooooo. They need to pass 30ga insulated wire, which has a slight tolerance so I may need to adjust after generating a test template. 02" diameter holes - but I won't be 100% sure till I place the template in the project space and verify it. I think they're going to be on about 0.07" center, and maybe. All I need is to generate a template/pattern for a bunch of regularly spaced holes (maybe 30-35) that I want to drill in a piece of scrap plastic. I suspect some of the open source PCB layout tools like kicad might be able to do what I need, so that's why I put it in here to start. It's really a pretty basic thing, so hopefully someone has come up with a quick solution around here. I did a search here but nothing useful came up. ![]()
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