Wire wrap layout software

Just place the sockets and go for it! I use boards with power planes to make distribution easy then there are some tiny brackets that fit over the WW post and touch the power planes, these are soldered into place but are not necessary. Next, I install the bypass caps and solder them into place. Any non DIP parts are soldered onto a header so that they may be wrapped and finally, the logic part of the circuit can be wrapped. It is helpful to highlight your schematic when you place a connection so as to eliminate confusion.

The author of the Open-Source app "PCB" said this in a related thread:

BTW, anything that creates a netlist gets you 90% of the way there. The scratching-them-off-as-you-go tip is critical.

The proper daisy-chain technique can make life easier.

Having said all that, after the project gets past a couple dozen connections, it's easier to lay out and etch a PCB. Maybe before that. Honest.

I used to just do it stright from the paper drawing, just mark with a pencil as you go.

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In theory maybe, I never bothered and never had any problem.

No way! if your only making a 1 off the bigger the project the more time you save wire wrapping.

I made 2 assumptions:

1) You made a printable schematic before starting assembly. Now that you have a circuit diagram in your CAD app, it's duck soup to click the Layout Editor icon and create a PCB layout. 2) You made 1 mistake somewhere in the process. Finding a fault on a printed assembly is orders of magnitude easier than on a wrapped assembly.

Ok lets take point 1 first, a click on the mouse will not produce you a pcb. It may also take you a long time to get a routed layout if you have a complex design. Point 2, fault finding is the same process either way, you can fix a fault on a wire wrap but you can only bodge a pcb fault. I allways check the connections with a meter before pluging in the chips as it doesn't take very long. If you made a mistake in the scematic then you could have a real problem fixing it if you have made a pcb.