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I cobbled this up using the graphics from the system at
http://www.mitedu.freeserve.co.uk/Prac/prac.html
because I found it a real pain not being able to move stuff once entered in the grid. This way they are all pictures and can be moved about at will after being clicked on. One snag is that I had to use Excel 2003 for the initial pasting of the component graphics from Paint because in Excel 2000 which I have on my home machine, a mysterious black border appeared around each graphic. I will try opening the veroboard graphics in Paint Shop Pro to see if that still happens - no, that seems to be OK, so maybe it is something odd in XP Paint.
I started off with the 8 and 14 pin IC graphics first, and stretched them to fit the standard excel 12.5 row height. I could have equally changed the row height to fit the IC pin spacing, 13.5 is the nearest I could get.
NO need to ask me what the layout is for - it's nothing in particular.
Stephen
I'm not totally understanding -- how are you drawing the arrows for the components?
I am drawing the arrows in Excel, and I use arrows so that I am in no doubt where the components connect. I copy the basic component graphic into the excel sheet, and then add arrows afterwards. I just prefer the look of it, and the facility to move the graphics around is moy graphico!
Stephen