It is the de facto standard used by PCB industry software to describe the printed circuit board images: copper layers, solder mask, legend, drill data, etc. The Gerber format is an open, ASCII, vector format for printed circuit board (PCB) designs. What are Gerber files and why do we need them? The first step in the fabrication process of PCBs, so just short. Fabricationįabrication is the process that requires the next inputs, and the output is a finished PCB board without any components. KiCad board setup Page from JLCPCB Capabilitiesīut as I said this exceeds the topic for this post, and I will now return to Fabrication and Assembly steps. There is maybe an opportunity for another post where I will explain how I configured my design rules that are in compliance with the fabricator, in this case, JLCPCB, but the good way is to open Board Setup shown in the image below and try to map all values from JLCPCB Capabilities to your Board Setup. DRC Check DRC result A quick look inside Design Rules Next, after I finished with the PCB design I ran a DRC check.

Note and Vender field for easier BOM Component ID as JLCPCB Part number Check DRC Vendor – Add the component ID (JLCPCB Part number) for the selected component from JLCPCB.Note – Placing the link of the selected component to the JLCPCB component library.

So, I add two fields in Symbol properties and those are: If you have all the information fields when generating the BOM (Bill of materials), you will not need to edit almost anything in the final product. Also, I would help a lot if you had planned at the start to fabricate your PCB design with JLCPCB or someone else because I added component info at the time when I created the schematic. Of course, we need to have finished the design of the PCB and schematics at this stage in order to start with the steps to go from PCB to fabrication and assembly.

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