[HomeBrew] Simple PC board layout method?

[KA4INM]

   On 04/04/14 19:54, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:

> Does anyone know of a very simple means of laying out a PC board, perhaps something like a library of parts footprints that can be pasted into a drawing program (e.g. Photoshop, Paint)? I know there are a lot of layout editor programs but the reviews say some have fairly steep learning curves. I just need something really basic that can output an image that will work with a system like the Press-N-Peel method by Techniks. That's the process that transfers laser printer toner onto the PCB copper using heat from an iron or oven. The toner acts as the etch resist.

> The circuit I'm working on is a one-sided board and all through-hole components. Five CMOS chips and a dozen or so passive components. Eventually, I'll probably end up making a couple dozen boards but not all at once. The circuit is simple enough that I figured if there was an image library of true-scale copy & paste DIP, transistor, etc., pads that any drawing or image editing cabable program could complete a lands & traces image (e.g., Paint, Photoshop, Powerpoint).

> I may end up trying Pcbexpress's freeware or Diptrace, but if there's a more basic approach, I'd like to find it.

   Eagle.

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