gEDA-user: Fitting a hobbyist design into someone else's form factor

[John Luciani]

On 1/28/07, Michael Sokolov <msokolov at ivan.harhan.org> wrote:
> Hello fellow gEDA/PCB users,
>
> I would like to fit my design into the form factor from an existing
> gadget so that I don't have to invent my own mechanical design and can
> utilise a ready-made enclosure.  This means that I need to carefully
> measure out the existing board in order to reproduce its mechanical form
> factor.

You may want to try using a digital camera to take a picture of the board or
enclosure. Use image-magick/gimp to simplify and scale the image. You could then
print out a piece of paper, verify it matches the enclosure and take
your measurements
with a transparent rule.

Maybe there is a way to use a image as a background inside PCB.

(* jcl *)

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