DIPTRACE PATTERN EDITOR DXF MANUAL
DIPTRACE PATTERN EDITOR DXF SOFTWARE

Standard libraries contain 50.000+ components. DipTrace is an advanced PCB design software that consists of 4 modules: PCB Layout, Schematic Capture, Component and Pattern Editors. DipTrace allows you import DXF files in PCB Layout and Pattern Editor. Output formats are DXF, Gerber, N/C Drill and G-code. A feature comparing a PCB to a schematic helps detect possible design mistakes and correct them before prototyping.

Another important feature is Design Rule Check (DRC) – the function that checks the clearance between design objects, minimum size of tracks and drills, which ensures board accuracy. Figure 1 shows what happens with a 4mm diameter circle, and figures 2 & 3 show what happens with a 4mm square. The fun with the ordinary square shape begins after the Import button has been pressed. Both files appear to load and display properly in DipTrace. Accurate shape-based copper pour system with different possible fill types and thermals can be placed to plane layer and manufacturing costs can be reduced by minimizing the amount of etching solution. All drawings were created in Geomagic Design and exported in the DXF 2007 format.

DIPTRACE PATTERN EDITOR DXF MANUAL

Smart manual routing tools allow users to finalize the design and to get the results they want in a blink of an eye. It can route a single layer (bottom side) and multilayer circuit boards, and there is an option to autoroute a single layer board with jumper wires, if required.

DipTrace has a high quality automatic router, superior to many routers included in other PCB layout packages. The board designer can instantly renew the PCB from an updated version of schematic and keep existing placement, routed traces, board outline, mounting holes and other work. For instance, a schematic can be converted to a PCB with one mouse click. The file (see attached) was created using ProgeCAD 2009, saved as a 2007 binary dxf file. Besides being very simple to learn, which is quite an accomplishment for an engineering software application, the software has a very intuitive user interface and many innovative features. I'm trying to import a simple DXF file containing through hole locations (circles with center marks) and a single component outline (also a circle) into the Pattern Editor of version 2.4.0.2, into a new library. DipTrace is an advanced PCB design software application that comes with PCB Layout module, powerful auto-router, Schematic Capture and Component/Pattern editors to design your own component libraries.

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