It seems to be a very nice platform for designing medium level PCBs. I started using EasyEDA since it is open source. EasyEDA, Upverter, Circuit.io are leaders among these. A cloud/browser based solutions for electronics design applications. Then I seen that another era of design is evolving. For beginners and medium level designs DipTrace seems to be best tool for me. Then I realized the truth that these OrCad, Altium softwares are for designing highly completed circuits like a computer motherboard. I never used latest versions of OrCad as I seen that they are much more complex and sophisticated. It was very easy and responsive to make a pcb with DipTrace compared to OrCad. Phase 3 : DiptraceĪfter that I seen that some of my friends are using DipTrace. Don’t need to worry above measurements every time, just create a component footprint one then use it in as many projects.Īfter completing the PCB design we could export the gerber files and send for PCB fabrication. Compared to my previous hand drawn experience it was really awesome. Then one of my friend introduced me OrCad. After that I will put that copper clad in the ferric chloride solution for etching. I used to harden the permanent marker tracks several times to avoid discontinuity. After the design is completed, I used to copy the design to copper clad using permanent marker.

Several iterations of drawing was required to make even a small circuit. Mostly I used graph papers to design PCB as it was very easy to make measurements and alignments. I started designing PCB manually without using any softwares.

I started doing hobby circuits before 8 years and now I am doing professional circuits. Today I am gonna write about my PCB designing journey that happened before 8 year.

Diptrace arduino library