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VCad Stripboard Layout Editor

VCAD changes name to VeeCAD ! Free versions continue. Commercial version with component text and import with libraries. Everything is at the new website at

veecad.com !

Features of VCAD:

Create component footprints.
Move, block move and rotate components.
Stretch resistor and diode wires to fit layout.
Break tracks, add wire links and free form wiring.
Design Rule Check.
Import components and netlist via Protel, Orcad PCB2 or Wirelist net formats.
Use schematic editors like Protel, Target3001 and Multisim7 etc.
Build optimal layouts with minimal track breaks.

Installing VCAD

Windows installer provides Editor, Help, Tutorials and Samples.
Runs on Win95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP. Pentium 100 with 16M RAM or better.
No need to uninstall before installing new releases of VCAD.

Free Schematic Editors for VCAD

TinyCAD Schematic Editor
- The first quality free schematic editor for Windows. Highly recommended.
- Please read the TinyCAD guide to avoid disappointment.
- http://tinycad.sourceforge.net
KiCad Schematic-PCB
- Exports the Orcad PCB2 net format which VCAD now supports: please contact me if you have netlist problems.
- http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/index.html

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VCadSetup_1.2.0.0.zip

Version History

Ver 1.1.2.0	Orcad PCB2 Netlist, Windows Themes, Horizontal Links, Graphic "debris" fixes. Mirrored print text fix. Major Help file revision. New file version 2.
Ver 1.1.1.0	Fixed undo crash after outline deleted in Outline window.
Ver 1.1.0.0	Fixed undo crash after Break and Wire 2nd click delete. Mirrored print option. Help file with new tutorials. Sample project.
Ver 1.0.8.0	Copy Graphic fixed.
Ver 1.0.7.0	25 level undo-redo.
Ver 1.0.6.0	Configurable line widths and cursor sizes. Fixed inability to load file with blank component values.
Ver 1.0.5.0	Cursors remind you whether you are in Select - Break - Link - Wire mode. New outlines get sensible lead lengths.
Ver 1.0.4.0	Blank editor unless a tutorial file loaded first. Nasty but no-one contacted me! Off board components "found".
Ver 1.0.3.0	Flicker free editing. File Menu invalid state locked out. Multi-page printing.

Please Email Me !

VCad is decent quality code and I support it. If a bug slips through, don't give up - email me with a fault description and I will reply and release a fix, usually in a day or two.

Questions and suggestions are invited.

Tell me if you have a schematic netlist format you would like supported.

Contact me

rogerlas (at) aanet (dot) com (dot) au

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