Product Development Inc.

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PC Board Design and Make Kit is a complete package to retrofit your MDX machine to manufacture PCB boards. The kit comes with software, tools, and a sample material kit.

PC Board Design
PCB Design provides a convenient and professional method of designing printed circuit boards and drawing schematics. Although a very comprehensive system, the most important design consideration for the software, has been to make it easy to use and accessible to non electrical engineers. It is ideal for both simple single-sided PCBs, and complex double-sided boards. A library allows standard component libraries (supplied) to be used. Alternatively, user defined components, or even whole circuits, may be saved as library items. It is possible to create small system boards which may easily be loaded and “joined” together to form complete circuits. A large selection of pre-drawn “Alpha” circuit modules is included.

PCB Design drawings may be transferred to other CAD programs to use in designing the enclosure, fascia, packaging and marketing material. PC Design can also import drawings form other programs via .dxf format.

PCB Manufacture
PCB Manufacture writes instructions for the Roland milling machine to create the PC board design. It works very easily and follows your desing you created in PCB Design software. The MDX creates a circuit by engraving around each circuit path with a fine point tool onto conventional copper clad PCB board. This process is called isolation engraving. While not electronically necessary, it is also possible to remove the unused copper to provide an excellent "prototype" of a conventional printed circuit board. If suitable tools are available for the machine, the software will also allow the holes to be drilled and the circuit board profile to be milled out. It is possible to take a fully finished board from the machine, engraved, drilled and ready to solder.

Whats Included
PC Board Design and Make Software
Engraving Tool (used for isolation milling)
2 Pieces Copper clad PC Board
Design Tutorials (on cd)
Manufacture Tutorials (on cd)

Shipping
This product has to be licensed by the software developer and a license file is included with each kit. Because of this requirement this product can not ship overnight. Shipping usually takes 2 weeks. If you need an immediate PC Board solutions purchase our PC Board CAM software that can be downloaded and a license file sent in 24 hours.

System Requirements
The software will run on any Windows system using Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista or Windows 7. Although the software can run on a computer with minimum resources for any of the operating systems, large drawings may benefit form higher specification machine to improve speed.

Compatibility
PC Board Design and Make is compatible with the Roland MDX-15,MDX-20, MDX-40, MDX-40A, MDX-540.

Training
PC Board Design and Make can be used without reference to a printed manual. Most functions are self explanatory and Help is always available in the program. However to achieve the best results in the shortest time, it is recommended that you work through the PC Board Design tutorials. These tutorials are contained within Help>Help Contents and are also available in a printable format, in the Tutorial_Booklet.pdf.

Tutorials
Tutorial 1 - Screen Layout, Menu Selection, etc. 
Tutorial 2 - Setting Up the Software to Suit Your System 
Tutorial 3 - Basic Circuit Drawing 
Tutorial 4 - Layers 
Tutorial 5 - Drawing Tools 
Tutorial 6 - Object Selection and the Marquee Box 
Tutorial 7 - Transformations 
Tutorial 8 - Advanced Editing of Tracks 
Tutorial 9 - Changing Track Width, Pad Properties and Layers 
Tutorial 10 - Text 
Tutorial 11 - PCB Manufacture by Photo-Etching 
Tutorial 12 - PCB Manufacture by Knife Cutting 
Tutorial 13 - PCB Manufacture by Engraving/Milling 
Tutorial 14 - Component Libraries and Creating New Pads 
Tutorial 15 - Links with Other Software