PTP no board - planing advice?

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fontoponto

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I finished my first bigger boardless ptp project and noticed that as much as I plan with a drawing in inkscape it turns out ugly.
Either it‘s the wrong size of a part or the impatience (for many reasons) or a wrong connection that needs to be fixed. What is you recommendation for ptp builds? Planing, planing, planing? More time? What else?
I guess it‘s planing…

I know it doesn‘t look like someone vomited in an enclosure but something looks off. some parts are laid out nice then some look randomly thrown in.

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You mean planning? Planing is making something flat by shaving it down.

Duuuude, I don't know.

Have you SEEN my PTP????

It doesn't even look a quarter as nice as that.

Love the layout and clean lines. It's *really* nice. That big ole circle in the middle is bold and interesting. You could plan everything out to a T, but that's just not very satisfying to me. Sometimes a circuit is just going to request and require some parts be oriented certain ways.

Having a circular layout is going to clash with linear tendencies and that's going to be exacerbated by larger sized components as well. So maybe frame the circle with a more rectangular array instead of trying to make everything orbit together. The only major piece of Feng shui advice I could give is maybe to try standing that big pink resistor (inductor?) on end so it doesn't mess with the flow.

What's the circuit?

Guess now I have to look up what diylc is.
 
comradehoser said:
You mean planning? Planing is making something flat by shaving it down.
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Oops… My autocorrection didn‘t tell me that it‘s a mistake :ROFLMAO: I meant planning.

It‘s a Facehugger Doom Bloom and I thought the ground circle makes sense in a practical and design kind of way.
The pink resistor is so large because there was no smaller one available with the same size as the others.
And thanks for the kind words, I don‘t meant to fish for compliments.
 
Fuzzhugger--ok, cool. Facehugger would also be a cool name.

I think you should think about what is bugging you aesthetically, and then try to plan around it for next time. Remember, you have the power of spatiality in a PTP build, so you can stand components on end, tuck some under others, stack them, put them all in loops, etc.
 
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