I have a design I want to use as a reference to make an identical design in CircuitStudio (and then modify it). My reference design is only available as a picture of the board.
The question: how to I import the board image into CircuitStudio's PCB editor so I can lay out my board directly over it?
Note: I don't want to edit the image; and I don't want it to actually become a part of the finished board (eg as silkscreen). I just want to *see* it overlaid on top of what I'm doing while I'm placing components and/or routing; I can then delete that layer before generating a finished board. A semi-transparent overlay or underlay would be ideal. I'd also need some way to scale it up or down until it is about the right size (eg by measuring something with known physical dimensions).
In some similar cases I've had gerbers (which I can print to pdf - I assume there is no other way to import gerbers into CircuitStudio - but if there was, that would be very useful as well). I think converting gerbers into an editable PCB is a very common thing to want to do, even if it is very labor intensive or requires tracing everything on top of the original manually, there still has to be some way to do it.
Please let me know what would be the best way to do this.
Best,
Alex