3/29/2023 0 Comments Diptrace lipo battery pad![]() ![]() The Star Wars logo was pretty straight forward and worked out good. Finally, I had to redraw the outline again as silk to get the white outline. To get the eye to show I had to add/adjust points of the top mask layer to make a circle and then place a filled circle on it (top silk). Then I cloned that layer and converted it to top mask so that the Sea Horse would show as gold/copper. I traced the imported shape and removed it when finished. ![]() The entire shape of it had to be redrawn as a filled polygon on the top copper layer. The Sea Horse was by far the most difficult. Also notice the multiple filled shapes used for the letter “B” in the layers section on the right (layers 2-5). The large “C” was redrawn as an arc but the ends of an arc are curved so I had to create a filled box polygon to get square ends on the “C”. For example, in the Cubs logo I recreated the outer circle in Diptrace then removed all the imported lines. Some of the lines imported were somewhat distored and some areas needed to be filled so I had to recreate them with the tools in Diptrace. I was not able to import any shape as filled even though the option exists in Diptrace. Any imported curved lines were actually comprised of many small lines. Importing art into Diptrace proved to be tedious work. In the Diptrace pattern editor, the LibreCAD DXF R12 files were imported successfully. There’s different versions of the DXF format so I ended up pulling the Inkscape DXF (export options: No ROBO Master, No LWPOLYLINE, Base unit mm) into LibreCAD and exporting again to DXF R12. ![]() Diptrace can only import DXF art files and I exported them from Inkscape to DXF format but Diptrace would not import them. Essentially, I tried to make them simple line drawings and shrunk them down to size (about 15mm). With the SVG files in hand, I first pulled them into Inkscape and cleaned them up as best I could, removing any excess lines and filled areas. ![]() In the search options you can select to only show images “Labeled for reuse with modification.” Most of the art I chose was under this usage right and came from wikipedia. I’m not a graphic artist so I went out to Google Image Search to find some vector/svg images. The entire family are Cubs fans so I made one of those for everybody. Two neices are golfers, one is a swimmer and the other loves Sea Horses. Luckily the boy’s are all Star Wars fans (including the adult “boys”) and that covers them. My neices and nephews have differing hobbies and I needed something special for each. The first step was to find some vector art for each pin. In reality it was more work than I thought and took a handful of software tools to get the art imported into Diptrace PCB design. The idea is simple put some art on the front and a copper pad on the back for soldering a butterfly tie tack pin. Full featured 30-day trial and 300-pin Freeware versions are available for evaluation.Unique Christmas gifts are the best and when I saw this post on Hackaday about making lapel pins from PCB’s I knew exactly what my family was getting this year.Step-by-Step Tutorial - learn the software and start real work in a few hours.Import/Export Features - allow you to exchange designs and libraries with other EDA tools.2500+ package 3D models are supplied with the program. 3D PCB Preview - shows your design in 3D.Standard Libraries - include 100,000+ parts.Component and Pattern Editors - allow you to make new parts and footprints.Schematic - Schematic Capture with multi-level hierarchy and export to PCB Layout, Spice or Netlist.PCB Layout - PCB design with an easy-to-use manual routing tools, shape-based autorouter and auto-placer.Are you looking for a professional and easy-to-use PCB Design software with powerful autorouter and reasonable price? Try DipTrace and you will be surprised! DipTrace is a complete state-of-the-art PCB Design System. ![]()
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