It also sorts them using four keys, in this order: This tool generates a bill of materials used on the board. = Drill details for drill 4 (1.0 mm / 39 mil) with 3 holes = = Drill details for drill 3 (0.8 mm / 30 mil) with 2 holes = = Drill details for drill 2 (0.7 mm / 28 mil) with 6 holes = = Drill details for drill 1 (0.6 mm / 25 mil) with 28 holes = It loads the PCB file and dumps information about all holes, sorted by drill sizes. This tool can be used to generate a list useful in manual drilling of the PCBs. pcb-mil2mm – converts mils to millimeters.

pcb-mm2mil – converts millimeters to mils.pcb-psinvert – inverts part of the PostScript image generated by traxplot to aid in developing boards with negative photopolymer films.pcb-bom – generates bill of materials to aid in soldering.pcb-drill – generates list of holes to aid in manual drilling.This will install the library (pcbfile4 package), which opens and interprets the PCB FILE 4 format, used by Autotrax, and all tools. InstallationĪs all scripts are written in Python 3, you can use this one-liner to install them: My autotrax-tools package aims to fill these gaps. The program is quite easy to learn, very flexible and allows selecting all of its functions and operations from the keyboard (using user-configured shortcuts and macros), its PCB file format is straightforward and very simple (I had no trouble reverse-engineering it for the sake of creating these tools) and traxplot utility (part of the Autotrax package) can be used to export one or more board layers to various formats (including PostScript, which is still used today), but it lacks a few useful functions. It runs perfectly in DOSBox and, despite its mature age (initial release of the program, as Protel PCB, was in 1985, and the software got renamed to Autotrax in 1988), it still can be used to design PCBs. ObjectiveĪutotrax is an old software for MS-DOS, which can be used to design printed circuit boards (PCBs). A set of tools to aid in using DOS Autotrax software.

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