[Milsurplus] Simple PC board layout tool?

[hwhall at compuserve.com]

>From some of the replies I have gotten, I realize I ought to have indicated how complicated is the board I'm working on.

The circuit I'm working on is a one-sided bard and all through-hole components. Five CMOS chips and a dozen or so passive components. Eventually, we'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, transisitor, etc., pads that any drawing or image editing cabable program could complete a lands & traces image (e.g., Paint, Photoshop, Powerpoint). Wasn't there an image set like that which referred to the library parts as puppets, or something similar? All my googling finds the high-power software programs that do everything from schematic drawing to layout to 3-D product images & the data files for professional PCB manufacturing machines.

This morning I found some of my old Bishop Graphics transparent pressure sensitive stuff, trace tape and some dry transfer direct resist material that I used a loooong time ago. I guess I could work with that. Maybe I could make a sheet of all the pads & stuff, and have it scanned to make a bitmap file from which I could do copy & paste in my image editing programs.

Wayne

 WB4OGM
 

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From: hwhall <hwhall at compuserve.com>
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Sent: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 12:09 am
Subject: Simple PC board layout tool?

    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 all seem to say they 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.
 
 Thanks & 73,
 
 Wayne
 WB4OGM