012' is their smallest hole.Īctually this should have all gone in the ' Cheap PCB stories. They're very inexpensive and have given good quality but they definitely won't do.

I've been using DirtyPCBs (which I think is part of DangerousPrototypes) for simple prototypes recently. I've seen many references to JLCPCB recently. It's just my situation that borderline justifies continuing to use it. I would not recommend the same software to newcomers though. I'm still using an old DOS version of Easy-PC Professional, for several reasons, and I run it in the DOSbox emulator under Linux. You could just draw your board out by hand on a large quadrille paper and use the grid to get the coordinates to type up the gerber files into a text editor-if you would live long enough to accomplish it! Gerber files are plain text, and the gerber file standard is pretty simple but yeah, the size of the job would be unrealistic for all but the tiniest, simplest boards. 5) The v-cut line must be zero pitch between sub-boards. 4) The v-cut line must go across the entire length of the boards i.e. 3) The v-cut line can only be a straight line. (This comes from the custom PCBs section of my 6502 primer.) 1) The entire panel size should be larger than 60 x 60 mm and smaller than 380 x 380 mm to fit in the v-cut machine. See also for some info and reviews on free PCB CAD. Wikipedia has a brief comparison of a long list of CADs, many of them free, at.

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