VERO board & Visio

What sort of shapes for Vero do you want? How do you want to use them?

Just looking for basic veroboard strip layout and resistors, capacitors, pots, darlington transistors, and 8pin DIL header at moment Not looking for large format DIL or similar.

Seems that a template set by

Only doing relatively simple ccts .. I could freehand draw them .. just thought there may be some free templates out there.

Came across a few 'free' design packages, but they were last updated for W95 .... won't run on W7

In any event not after a design package .. just a simple layout ... and Visio with its place and move around capability, transparency (& snap if you want) would seem fine.

Have you got Draftsight or whatever that can handle DXF files?

That's simply because it isn't zipped although the suffix suggests it is. Just rename the file or tell Visio to use it as is, it's a PNG file.

Only Visio ... but it can import cxf files I think

I tried renaming ... it shows then as vero.png but Visio does not see it is I try open from within visio If I look in file explorer it shows it then as visio.zip.png can't seem to get windows to know its not a zip file

I had a quick look and it seemed to be just a pic of a folder. JPG is a stupid file to use for that sort of thing anyway.

Worth downloading Draftsight and having a play - it's free, and a proper

I only use it where I must have a PC prog - but it handles the industry standard DXF files that my CAD prog uses too.

I've no idea how suitable Visio would be for all this - must admit to never having heard of it. ;-)

If that's not working for you, you might want to look at Fritzing.

It will let you design on stripboard or breadboard (but not, frustratingly let you use stripboard as a PCB output option)

Gordon

I had the same problem Dave. I emailed the author but yet to get a reply.

I'll reply here If I make any progress.

Bob

I've heard back from the author and he has corrected the file link which had got corrupted in the "upgrade" to W7 Unzip the file to get Vero.vss On my version of visio, there is a folder called solutions which houses all the *.VSS files. If you don't have this folder then just search for

hth

Bob

Its a very capable 2D drafting program ... Visio has been going for a long time ... used it first in mid 90's when it was a standalone company - much used in Telecomms as standard symbols for all the manufacturers products ... you could add cards to racks etc. Also used a lot for office layouts, flowcharts, org charts etc.

Visio bought by Microsoft in 2000

He has now loaded updated file