can any freeware programs do this?

[Winenut]

I want to take a circuit similar to this:

http://circuitzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Simple-Peak-Detector-Circuit-Diagram.png

import it into a preferably freeware program and the program calculates the
layout on stripboard. I've used StripboardMagic in the past, but I still
have to draw out the circuit first, hope to get it right, and then drag each
component onto the layout. I want something that will do all of this
automatically. BMP or JPEG drawn circuit in, layout on board out.

Can any freeware do it?

Thanks

 

[Rich Webb]

I want to take a circuit similar to this:

http://circuitzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Simple-Peak-Detector-Circuit-Diagram.png

import it into a preferably freeware program and the program calculates the
layout on stripboard. I've used StripboardMagic in the past, but I still
have to draw out the circuit first, hope to get it right, and then drag each
component onto the layout. I want something that will do all of this
automatically. BMP or JPEG drawn circuit in, layout on board out.

Can any freeware do it?

No. It is possible to go from a bitmap to a vector drawing but there's
not enough information in a pure drawing to go from there to a netlist
to a layout.

Pretty much any layout application, for stripboard or "regular" PCBs,
requires that the circuit first be drawn with special symbols -- usually
termed "schematic capture." When that's done and debugged and DRC'd
(design rule checked), the results are exported to a netlist file. THEN
it's time to move on to the physical layout in the board editor.

That said, take a look at http://www.veecad.com/index.html. There is a
free version to check out the look'n'feel. The paid version includes
other goodies. There is a "schematic editors" page there that has
descriptions of and links to several good freeware schematic capture
programs that can create compatible netlists.