Yesterday, the illustrious Max the Magnificent sent me an email asking whether I knew of any wholesale Multilayer PCB Design tools that would allow objects -- like LEDs or other components -- to be placed in a radial fashion.
This is a good question. If you stop and think about it, wholesale Multilayer PCB Designers have been using the concept of a grid for decades and we tend to like everything in neat and tidy rows and columns. Maybe it’s because of our love for matrices and linear algebra? I don’t know, but -- for whatever reason -- everyone’s concept of rectilinear grids becomes an issue when you have to design a round PCB, including placing components and routing tracks in circles!
Now, I honestly do not know if there are any other wholesale Multilayer PCB Design tools that can do this -- I’ve yet to see one -- but I do know that radial grids are allowed in Altium Designer. In fact, users can set up a number of different grids and have them overlaid and in effect for either components or other items to be placed.
Here is a little hobby project I was working on when the advanced grid features were being added to Altium Designer version 10. It’s a PCB for a stroboscopic guitar tuner..
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