Osmond PCB is a planning tool for all those who design circuit boards. OsmondCocoa updates over 10 years of development with the latest Cocoa framework to bring you a feature-rich tool:
- Virtually unlimited board sizes
- Virtually unlimited number of board layers
- Virtually unlimited number of parts
- Spatial resolution down to 10 nanometer
- Concurrent support for both Imperial and metric units
- All angle routing
- Rubber-band traces
- Rats Nest Layer
- Variable size grid
- Support
What's New
Version 1.1.26:
- Several deprecated Gerber file patterns are no longer used.
- Fixed a bug in the Gerber coding of special outline pads.
- Fixed a bug that could cause part types made with special outline pad definitions, to lose their pad definitions when copied from one design to another.
- Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect clearance checking of parts made with special outline pad definitions.
- Fixed a bug that caused traces made using the Quick Route tool on rats nest traces to have zero width.
- Fixed a bug that could cause pads on rotated parts to lose their rotation when changed with the Pad Change tool.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent a signal plane layer from being correctly rendered in a Gerber file when the Flatten mode is selected.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when performing a Check All Connection operation if a part is outside the working area.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the malfunction of various dialogs if text fields in the dialogs contained non-ASCII text.
Version 1.1.26:
- Several deprecated Gerber file patterns are no longer used.
- Fixed a bug in the Gerber coding of special outline pads.
- Fixed a bug that could cause part types made with special outline pad definitions, to lose their pad definitions when copied from one design to another.
- Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect clearance checking of parts made more...
Requirements
Intel/PPC, OS X 10.5 or later
Intel/PPC, OS X 10.5 or later
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| Downloads:9,355 |
| Version Downloads:164 |
| Type:Business : Applications |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:18 Mar 2014 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $79.00 |
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Osmond PCB is a planning tool for all those who design circuit boards. OsmondCocoa updates over 10 years of development with the latest Cocoa framework to bring you a feature-rich tool:
- Virtually unlimited board sizes
- Virtually unlimited number of board layers
- Virtually unlimited number of parts
- Spatial resolution down to 10 nanometer
- Concurrent support for both Imperial and metric units
- All angle routing
- Rubber-band traces
- Rats Nest Layer
- Variable size grid
- Support for both through-hole and surface mount parts
- Circular, rectangular, and oval pads
- Easy part editing
- Variable trace widths
- Variable trace spacing
- Curved traces
- Silkscreen, solder-mask, and auxiliary layers
- Signal and ground planes
- Copper fill areas
- Automatic clearance checks
- Easy manual and semi-automatic routing
- Built-in script language using Lua
- Gerber (RS-274X) and drill file (Excellon) output
- DXF file output
- DXF file input
- Encapsulated PostScript file output
- Net check output (IPC-356)
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Abramurkwian reviewed on 23 Sep 2013
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Pacman reviewed on 29 Oct 2011
Ferget about Eagle, it's a completely non-intuitive program that should never have made it to Mac.
-But Osmond works quite well. If you have trouble finding out how to make your first PCB, please follow the tutorials; after you've done so, you'll find Osmond PCB quite easy! :)
Definitely recommended.
I couldn't resist buying it, although I haven't gone past the limits yet. ;)
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After having used this application for a long time, I suddenly discover awesome features that I didn't notice before.
One of them is the background PDF.
1: Draw your gadget enclosure in Photoshop (remember: You can create your drawing on exact measurements; I use cm and 300dpi), then use "Save As", pick "Photoshop PDF" (save as a copy!)
In OsmondPCB, select File->Import. Now open the PDF.
Of course, you drew your box enclosure on a canvas larger than the box itself, so in OsmondPCB's Edit menu, you choose "PDF Image..." and set the offset to - say -10mm, -10mm, then adjust the visibility of the image too.
2: You can set default units to imperial or metric - setting this to metric (or 'force metric') saves you from selecting 'mm' in the dialog-boxes containing coordinates; 'mm'. Excellent.
3: When you create your own components / parts you can prefix them with a category followed by colon, for instance...
Part Name:
2.5mm Headers: PinRow 3x2
-This will put the part named PinRow 3x2 in the category "2.5mm Headers"
4: You can name the gerber files as you like. See the Edit menu!
5: You can flip the PCB so you work on the back-side of it, use "Flip Over" from the Design menu.
-There are a lot more features I'd like to mention, but I use these so often, that anyone using OsmondPCB should try them out!
Note: If you use Cenon, you should rename your gerber-files so they end in 'ger' instead of 'gbr', before importing them.
Now, go and make some cool gadgets!!
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Moog Modular reviewed on 08 Mar 2011
Developer was very quick and helpful when I had questions.
I have made products using this app with no problems from the pcb house.]
DXF input works for most of my existing drawings from other apps.
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Rlong4587 reviewed on 07 Mar 2011
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I agree that Mr. Chavez is very responsive to suggestions and feedback etc.. So much so in fact that I feel guilty about pestering him again to ask why - after some months - the file icons reverted to 'generic' when all other app icons are unaffected (probably something I did anyway...)
HIGHLY recommended!