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The new version 7.0 (coming next year) will handle up to 8 copper layers.

2027 will be a wonderful year ! :D

SprintLayout is the absolute best PCB software in my opinion: the simplest (no need to have a schematic to start a PCB design), most intuitive and very efficient.
The SprintFont plugin ...

Hi,

I know that Sprint Layout is able to manage 4 Layers (C1, I1, I2, C2), but for a complex project using a FPGA I need to have 6 layers.

Is it possible to have 6 layers in Sprint Layout, and if yes, how to proceed ?

thank you,

Thank you very much !

You can't flip the board and work with a "flipped" version.
However, you can use "Photoview" to inspect your board. Here, you can flip the board to view it from the other side.

What do you mean by "Photoview" ? : is it another software ?

Thank you

Hi,

I am designing a PCB, which is very "crowdy", and I need to place the parts on the both sides of the PCB.

I have not seen a way to view the other side of the PCB, nor a way to flip from a side to the other, and vice versa: this would help to place the parts on the both side.

Can you help ...

Congratulations for this wonderful plugin !

It increases the features of SprintLayout by a huge margin, it is a must have plugin !

As we say in French: "Bravo" ...

Hello,

I have been using SL for years and I have never faced this issue:

When I export the Gerber files then zip them to upload on the JLCPCB website, the preview of the PCB shows the entire working area (that includes the PCB + the comments that I write next to the PCB to remind me different ...

You will have to delete these zones and you can see the layout-elements which were covered.

How can I delete these zones ?

You may also activate the automatic-ground-plane in Sprint-Layout for C1 and C2.

I very often use Ground planes, but I activate them manually by clicking on the icon, see ...

Hi,

I try to import my first Gerber files (I usually only export Gerber's from SL8), and I get a total mess !

I have joined the Gerber's files that come from Elektor magazine, so they are supposed to be good.

Gerber_XR2206-Function-Generator_PCB_XR2206-Function-Generator_2024-06-25.zip

The ...

Hi,

I use both sPlan 8.0 and SprintLayout 6.0.

I have asked how to insert the [ FilePath + FileName ] in a sheet on a sPlan diagram, in this topic: https://forum.abacom-online.de/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=20307#p20307

I have the same question regarding SprintLayout: I would like to add [FilePath ...

I didn't but I going to start a topic.

Thank you very much for

Thank you VERY much Hardy: it is a perfect solution !

I am also looking for a similar function with Sprint Layout, in order too have the full "Pathname+Filepath" close to the PCB design: do you know a similar solution on Sprint Layout ??

Thank you

Hi,

I use sPlan 8.0 and I suggest an improvement that is probably easy to implement in a future update:

I would like to have " Copy full Path+Name" function from the Edit Menu, in order to quickly paste it in a Text field of the schematic: this helps to find the file when we just have the printout ...

Thank you very much ! (sorry for my late reply but I don't receive the notification of replies from the forum).

Sorry for my late reply, but I don't receive the "notifications of reply" from the forum : I don't know why !

Here is my Generic VQFN-20 footprint:
VQFN-20.LMK

Here is my Footprint for the TPS7A4701 Positive Voltage Regulator (one of the very best VR):
TPS7A4701 PositiveTexas.LMK

Here is my ...

Not yet, but I made a wrong manipulation, so the version 1.5.2. does work for importing the Footprints from Kicad 8.0.

What is the procedure for upgrading Sprinfont from version 1.5.2 to 1.5.4 ?

Thanks and congratulations again for this must have plugin !

This plugin is so amazing : it allows us to import any footprint from the huge Kicad librairy....

I have been using it since it has been released (v1.5.2), to import the "name of footprint.kicad_mod" files, from Kicad 6.0 , but I have recently tried to import a "kicad_mod" file from Kicad 8.0, and ...

I have done this manually one after one.

Subject is solved for me.

Hello,

I use sPLAN 8.0 and I have dowloaded a lot of additional symbols.

Some of them are in the ".LIB" format, so it is easy to add them to the Librairies folder, in order to have a good organization from the sPlan interface.

But some of them are provided as ".spl" format that we can display ...

Problem solved by creating exclusion areas on the Ground plane: this progressively drives you to the problem...

Thanks