can any freeware programs do this?

I want to take a circuit similar to this:

import it into a preferably freeware program and the program calculates the layout on stripboard. I've used StripboardMagic in the past, but I still have to draw out the circuit first, hope to get it right, and then drag each component onto the layout. I want something that will do all of this automatically. BMP or JPEG drawn circuit in, layout on board out.

Can any freeware do it?

Thanks

No. It is possible to go from a bitmap to a vector drawing but there's not enough information in a pure drawing to go from there to a netlist to a layout.

Pretty much any layout application, for stripboard or "regular" PCBs, requires that the circuit first be drawn with special symbols -- usually termed "schematic capture." When that's done and debugged and DRC'd (design rule checked), the results are exported to a netlist file. THEN it's time to move on to the physical layout in the board editor.

That said, take a look at

There is a free version to check out the look'n'feel. The paid version includes other goodies. There is a "schematic editors" page there that has descriptions of and links to several good freeware schematic capture programs that can create compatible netlists.

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Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA