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I know these are basic and redundant questions, but I fialed to find an extensive explanation of ground plane in Diptrace (or atleast I couldnt find it). Now, when I print this circuit and transfrer it to the copper board, where will I place the components them selves? On the other side of the board which will be completely etched? On the side where the image had been transfered and etched accordingly? So im going to be applying the toner transer method using a hot iron. Im going to make this PCB *hopefully* with the art of DIY at home. So what does this mean? The top layer has the ground? and what about the bottom layer? Why cant I put the ground pour on the bottom layer?. But the layer chosen when I dropped the ground plane was 'TOP' (in diptrace). For first trail and error purpose, I did establish a ground plane (connected to the -ve terminal of the battery). I know that the circuit I have is simple and dont need a ground plane, but I do need to understand the concept. If DipTrace is everything you said so far in the forums, I think we could actually speed up some projects and cut costs after doing the migration. Ive read a lot of articles on it but nothing really dealt with the above question. What is a ground plane and why do I need it. DipTrace has 4 modules: schematic capture editor, PCB layout editor with built-in shape-based autorouter and 3D-preview. The developers provide a multi-lingual interface and tutorials (currently available in English and 21 other languages).

#Diptrace forum software

I followed a tutorial on line that used a battery connecter, a 7805 reg, couple of caps, a resistor and an LED.*the usual stuff* DipTrace is an EDA/CAD software for creating schematic diagrams and printed circuit boards.

Howrever, right now I am stuck with the idea of a ground plane. Its for sure better than Eagle, atleast in my experience. Publison- if you figure it out, lemme know! I'll be sure to post any tidbits I figure out.Hello! Ive been working with Diptrace for a couple of days now. Rick sand Dave- thanks! I'mma keep trying. But the other great advantage is being able to 'tap' power or ground from anywhere on the board, wherever you need it-without using real estate for the trace to get it there. The biggest advantage to having separate power and ground planes is minimized routing on the top and bottom signal planes. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history to change its parameters. Freedom to build what you want FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. I wish I had more time to learn it, but for now I'm somewhat limited (hence my question.) Website Documentation Forum Bug tracker Git repository. Diptrace, so far seems like it's a much better software package and incredibly useful.

I've only created pcb with ExpressPCB which is incredibly simple to use, and creating the power and ground planes is very straight forward. Thanks! I'd like to keep a segregated power and ground plane for managing stray capacitance and noise and such, as Dave Hein and Duane D have pointed out. Is that what you really need?ġ - Make first attempt to define board sizeĢ - Work the component placement according to schematic/connector needsĤ - If after 'N' attempts (depending on schematic compplexity and max board size requirements) I don't succeed then try 1 layer + jumpers on second layer.ĥ - If not possible revert to 2 layer designĪlex- Very good points, and that's a good strategy. Second, even if you could do 4 layers, are you sure you want that? It's more expensive and you will not be able to do a DIY board.

#Diptrace forum free

However- it routes traces for Vcc and Gnd to each component on the signal layers.Ĭan someone explain what I need to do to make the Vcc and Gnd connections connect directly to a 3rd and 4th plane (Vcc and Gnd?) This should eliminate the traces.įirst the free version is ' All features and libraries, 300 pins and 2 signal layers, non-profit use only' The schematic has no errors, and when I use it to create a PCB it lays everything out fine. My attachment is the schematic that I'd like to turn into a board with 2 signal layers, a ground plane and a power plane (3.3v) I'm just getting started using DipTrace and I am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong here.