(UPDATED) Panelizing boards within KiCad - Random KiCad Tips
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- Опубликовано: 25 дек 2020
- (UPDATED) Panelizing boards within KiCad - Random KiCad Tips
Blog post and link to Github library: www.microtype.io/how-to-panel...
Original version: • Panelizing boards with...
This video updates a previous one ( • Panelizing boards with... ) on a method to panelize PCBs within KiCad for getting boards assembled on a large scale. This method shows how to use tabs (mouse bites) within KiCad. It can also be used with V-scoring.
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Thank you for all the good work that you are doing for the community. These KiCAD tips and your other videos are really useful, keep up the good work mate.
Good to see u back :)
Good to be back!
Such a clear and exact presentation of super useful information, thank you!
Really useful videos to watch for anyone interested in electronics. Thank you.
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Your design videos are great!
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Great tutorial, when will it be possible to state panel size and tell Kicad fit as many as you can !...cheers.
you can use gerber panalizer or kikit
What is this nice chair you have? :) - Great Video, thank you for sharing your knowlegde!
LOL! It's not that nice, just a Office Depot special. One day I wanna upgrade to a proper ergonomic one. Thanks for the kind words :)
@@MicroTypeEngineering Oops!
It looks so good because it's so nice and wide in the shoulder area.
I'm also looking for a good ergonomic desk chair, which is why I said that. :)
How do you communicate to the fab house that the 2mm segment is to be routed? I'm trying to use mouse bite, not to panelize, but just to create an optional passive breakaway section on a single large board.
You chose quite time consuming method. KiKit automates all the steps and generates gerber files as well.
github.com/yaqwsx/KiKit/blob/master/doc/examples.md
Hah! I just spent the last 30 minutes going through that. What a neat tool, I've never seen it before. I think it'll take me longer to mess with the configuration than to just keep doing it manually though. Plus, it seems to only handle two layer boards, and not a lot of gerber settings can be adjusted without digging into the source.
Definitely will be following it!
@@MicroTypeEngineering
I've made test with 4 layer PCB and it works fine (In1.cu and In2.cu layers are copied to the output panel). Configuration of all parameters might be time consuming when you do it for the first time. Now I just copy the panelization script from my previous project to the next one, modify some parameters and that's it.
There is one nasty bug in KiKit - if any part of a component is outside board outline (even hidden text field) it is removed from the panel. I guess it is limitation of KiCad API, not KiKit itself.
@@zeb4128 Looks like that issue is already fixed in upstream according to github.com/yaqwsx/KiKit/issues/86, but you need to install the "upstream" version to get the fix (until the "stable" version is updated)
@@drojf That's great. Thanks for the link.
Ahh, thanks guys. Will give it a proper test, might have to have a third version in this series if it works out!
That's a funny way of saying KiCad. I think you are trying to say KyCad.