PCB Board Replicating

PCB Board Replicating starts from extract layer drawing of printed circuit board after remove the solder mask layer from it, and then drawing PCB layout accordingly, also the PCB schematic diagram can be restored to improve the electrical performance;

The tool selector buttons reside below the layer controls. They are used to select which layout tool to use in the drawing area. Each tool performs its function when Btn1 is pressed.

Every tool gives the cursor a unique shape that identifies it. The tool selector buttons themselves are icons that illustrate their function. Each layout tool can also be selected from the keyboard:

Escape key  Panner tool

F1 key      Via tool

F2 key      Line tool

F3 key      Arc tool

F4 key      Text tool

F5 key      Rectangle tool

F6 key      Polygon tool

F7 key      Buffer tool

F8 key      Delete tool

F9 key      Rotate tool

Insert key  Insert-point tool

F10 key     Thermal tool

F11 key     Arrow tool

Some of the tools are very simple, such as the Via tool. Clicking Btn1 with the Via tool creates a via at the cross hair position. The via will have the diameter and drill sizes that are active, as shown in the status line. The Buffer tool is similar. With it, <Btn1> copies the contents of the active buffer to the layout, but only those parts that reside on visible layers are copied.

The Rotate tool allows you to rotate elements, arcs, and text objects 90 degrees counter-clockwise with each click. Holding the Shift key down changes the Rotate tool to clockwise operation. Anything including groups of objects can be rotated inside a buffer using the rotate buffer menu option.

Pcb board Replicating Line Tool The Line tool is explained in detail in Section 2.5 [Line Objects], page 8. Go read that section if you haven’t already. Activate the Line tool. Set the active layer to the solder layer.

Try drawing some lines. Use the U key to undo some of the lines you just created from Pcb circuit card reverse engineering. Zoom in a bit closer with the Z key. Draw some more lines. Be sure to draw some separate lines by starting a new anchor point with Ctrl-Btn1. Change the ‘crosshair snaps to pin/pads’ behavior in the Settings menu. Now draw a line. Notice that the new line points must now always be on a grid point. It might not be able to reach some pins or pads with this setting.

Increase the active line thickness by pressing the L key. Note that the status line updates to reflect the new active line thickness. Now draw another line. Before completing the next line, make the component layer active by pressing the 4 key. Now finish the line.

Notice that a via was automatically placed where you switched layers. cloning Pcb card does not do any checks to make sure that the via could safely be placed there. Neither does it interfere with your desire to place lines haphazardly. It is up to you to place things properly when doing manual routing with the Line tool after Pcb board Replicating.

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