1 Use your regular full curcuit design/PCB layout tools - DipTrace, Eagle, Express etc etc and either set up templates or simply build wide tracks on the bottom and use the tracks on the top as the links. Set the grid and snap to 0.1'. Pay money for something like lochmaster, Veecad, Stripboard designer, etc. I'm obliged to Martyn Jones - callsign GW6ITJ - who sent me the above Excel file. It includes a veroboard template and a few common component shapes. Martyn has also included a sample layout. You can place, move and resize the components on the veroboard background. You can also create new component shapes as required.
Stripboard Magic is a Windows application for designing PCB layouts on stripboard (aka prototyping board, aka Veroboard). It was released by a British company called Ambyr which ceased trading a long time ago.
Free Circuit Design Software
The interface is a quite primitive and a little strange but the program is functional even on Windows XP. It also works great under wine in Linux, at least with version 0.9.38 and above as this is all I have checked. It should probably work on older versions too. I haven’t tried it on Vista though.
It can be a handy program when called upon and I have successfully used it a few times when throwing together random small circuits. Due to the interface I would imagine it to be a bit clumsy for very large circuits. The biggest gripe I have with it is the inability to change the orientation of components on the board, so some circuits tend to be slightly larger than they need to be.
I downloaded a copy of Stripboard Magic 1.0 back in the 90’s and recently just found it lying about on my computer. As I would consider it to well and truly be abandonware and as it seems to be a little sought after by some hobbyists I have provided a link to download it below.
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Here are some screenshots showing the schematic view (top) and board layout view (bottom):
Another hard to find app these days is Stripboard Designer, mirrored here for people who wish to use it.
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[download id=”5628″]
PCB, Perfboard or Stripboard designer
Courtesy/Thanks to: DIY Fever
Description:Go to http://diylc.org for the latest release of this software.
This piece of software is great utility for everyone who draws board layouts, either for PCB,
Perfboard or Stripboard. It has simple yet very effective interface which makes job much easier.
Placing a component on board takes only 2-3 mouse clicks! You need to click on source and destination
hole and program will place component between them. Placing polarized components is the same, but then
you need to take care about hole order because program takes source hole for positive and destination
hole for negative side. It's similar with IC: pin 1 goes in source hole and last pin goes to
destination hole. When working with PCB layouts you can set width of each trace and solder pad! Also,
there's 'Print PnP' which gives printout ready for transfer on blank board (laser printer
required).
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Added 2017-04-10 17:30:58 by bancika
new link for the latest DIYLC version https://github.com/bancika/diy-layout-creator Cheers, Bancika
Added 2011-12-16 01:13:02 by Scotsch
I'm not sure if THIS website works properly or is misleading. I'm trying to find a DIY-PCB software to download, I don't mind what the price is, it just better work. Free is fine too, as long as it makes stripboard/veroboard conversions from schematics.
Added 2011-02-01 14:18:42 by sm9413
i wan download tis software..
Added 2011-01-31 13:44:14 by bancika
There's a completely new version of DIYLC (3.x) available at http://diylc.org Cheers
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