Rick Christian wrote on 7/10/2017 10:58 PM:
>
>    Hello everybody!
>
> In order to complete a project I am working on I need to take what is all
> breadboarded up and turn it into a PiCrust (tm,R etc. :) ;) ) Thats what I
call
>  boards that have 40 GPIO connector to plug onto the Pi itself.
>
> Now what I need to is come up with a means to get all this stuff on my lab
desk
>  and breadboards into the stuff that Advanced PCB http://www.4pcb.com/ needs
to
>  create the PCB, populate it, its mostly blank, there is module that needs to
> have 2 rows of pins to plug it in, these come from another supplier prefab'd.
> The board is just wires into the GPIO connectors for 5V, I2S etc...
>
> So what I am looking for is SOFTWARE etc. to do this.
>
> NOTE: I use ONLY, ABSOLUTELY ONLY LINUX, period. I do not use, do not have
> access to any non Linux systems. My work and personal systems are LINUX ONLY.
> It can run on a PI2/3 or it can run on KUbuntu 12.04, or 14.04 preferred, but
> 16.04 if I have to... I don't do WINE, I don't do VM's of non *Nix/BSD, so
none
>  of that is an option. I don't care if the software is open source. So long
as
> it is EITHER FREE or VERY CHEAP!
>
> So with the above understanding...
>
> With this in mind what software etc. do I need to go from my hand sribbles
and
> the breadboard mess to finished board, I plug into the Pi's, and stuff the
> other board into it, and go..
>
> I am using Advanced PCB as an example, any other similar firms with US
> OPERATIONS, is fine.

You need two packages or one which combines the two.  You need a schematic
capture package and a PCB layout package.  I have used FreePCB to layout
boards once I had a schematic and could generate a netlist to feed the
layout package.  This worked fine.  Many others use TinyCAD to draw the
schematic and produce the netlist to feed FreePCB, but you can use any
schematic program that will generate a PAD netlist.

A package that is popular at the moment is KiCad.  I keep telling myself I
will learn it, but I have yet to.  KiCad combines both schematic captureand
layout and is a Unix program.

Oh, I forgot about the Unix thing.  FreePCB is a windows only program.

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Rick C

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