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ProCAD Electronic V1.0 Demo
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How the Demo PCB was constructed.
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I would imagine by now that most of you have probably seen the example
circuit and PCB on this disk. If you have not yet seen it, you can find
the files in the 'Examples' draw on this demo disk. In this short document
I aim to give you a step by step guide of how I constructed this PCB using
ProCAD, so that you can see how easy ProCAD makes PCB construction. Alright
here we go!
1) Working to a print of the circuit schematic (also found in 'Examples'),
using the PCB component package libraries, each component was placed on
the on the screen. The components were positioned in their respective groups
as close to the circuit schematic layout as possible, keeping a sensible
amount of space between each component. This was done using colour pen 1. The
layout was now saved as separate file.
2) Working to the print of the circuit the connections between each
component were drawn in. Pen 2, Blue was used to show the component side
connections and Pen 3, red to show the solder side connections. The
process for making the connections was to start on the solder side and make
as many connections excluding power connections without needing to cross
to the component side. As each connection was made the connection was marked
of on the circuit print that I was working to with a high lighter pen.
3) After a while it becomes difficult to stay on the solder side for the
total length of each connection, at this point I started to use both the
component and solder sides for the connections crossing between sides when
required to do so. As most of you will be aware the point at which a track
crosses from one side to the other where there is no component is referred
to as a 'via hole'. As you see some connections were made entirely on the
component side. The layout and connections were now saved under a new file
name.
4) At this point the layout and connections were confined to pages 1 and 3
of the work area. A copy of the layout and connections was now made on pages
2 and 4 using the 'Grab Brush, Normal' function, this was done in two parts.
5) Pen 1, white was now removed from pages 1 and 3 leaving just the
connections where I once had the layout and connections. Pen 1 was removed
using the 'ColourDel' menu. This connections only pattern forms the bases for
both track sides. The complete copy on the other two pages served as a
reminder of where the connections connected to the components. If the board
was to cover all four pages the layout and connections 'reminder' would have
to be printed. All four pages were now saved under a new file name as this is
the master pattern for both sides of the PCB.
6) At this point all the pads were added, two sizes of round pads were
used, small for the via holes and slightly larger for the components.
The PCB pad interface was used for this. The IC pads for IC1 and the displays
were also done through the pad interface. The IC pads for IC2, 3, 4 and 5
were taken from the Pad&Tracks PCB library, which incidentally has been
included on this disk as a demo library. After checking that the pads did not
interfere with any connection routs, a few adjustments were necessary, the
work area was saved under the same name as before, as all pads are common to
both sides.
7) Using the tracking PCB pen, mainly in the zoom editor the solder side
tracks were laid directly over the red and blue connections. Once the solder
side was complete the remaining traces of the connections were removed using
the 'ColourDel' menu just leaving the tracks drawn in pen 1. Pages 1 and 2
were now saved under a new file name.
8) The file saved in step 6 was now reloaded, and the component side
tracks were drawn in the same way. Again the pages 1 and 2 were saved under
a new file name.
9) Using the 'Reposition' function the two track sides were loaded next
door to each other on the work area. At this point (left to last) I joined
all the positive and negative power supplies up to make the complete positive
and negative supply rails. Finally a boundary was added showing the overall
size and shape of the board.
Well there you have it in nine steps. No doubt you have realise by now
that PCB construction using ProCAD work on a colour based system. The demo
board, which was incidentally an old college assignment of mine, has two
layers, solder and component side tracks. It is also possible to construct
boards with more than two layers using ProCAD. Like I have done you can
tackle one layer at a time at both connection and tracking stages working
from prints of each layer of connections and tracks as you go, as long as you
mark the area already connected on the prints with a high lighter pen you
should not get lost.
If by this stage you intend to buy the full version of ProCAD, I would
suggest that you keep hold of this demo, as this document and the demo PCB
files serves as a good example of how PCB's should be constructed using
ProCAD.
End of Document.