Website for Lochmaster 4 Designs?

[Chris56000]

Hi!

Can anyone point me in the direction of a website with Abacom "Lochmaster" 4 Designs for download please?

My friend has quite a number of circuits he wants me to make for him that don't warrant PCBs making, as we couldn't sell the other four left over from each JLC order, so I'm looking for a website with native Lochmaster layouts I can use and adapt, ideally larger and more complex boards!

Chris Williams

[Doctorandus_P]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=abacom+lochmaster&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images

Quite a bunch of years ago I had a look at that software, but It was quite short, as I decided it did not have enough functionality for me, and I decided to go with a full PCB program, because I also want to design PCB's, creater gerbers and order PCB's.
But for one-offs and simple things I also use vero / matrix board.
Although I don't do it much, I don't see any reason why a regular PCB design program can't be used in the same manner as lochmaster. You just have to limit yourself to a 2.54mm grid, and use only horizontal tracks on one of the copper layers. One of the advantages of doing it in software first, is that you can shift things around in the planning stage. When I was a kid (30+ years ago) I often got into trouble because I put all the parts too close together on veroboard, and even adding wiring was dificult.

From what I remember, there is also no schematic drawing in Lochmaster, and thus also no real netlist and DRC check between a schematic and the "PCB". This is a real hindrance. Once you've had your PC keep track of all connections between a (human readable) schematic, and the chaos on a PCB / breadboard / vero board etc, then you do not want to go back.