One of my favourite things is to put my graphics on boards. KiCad is much better than Eagle in that respect. One day there will be a basic graphics editor included in the suite :-)
I had a PNG that wasn't playing nice (the colors were not reversing to negative). I recommend bringing the PNG into MS paint and saving it out as a 24 bit BMP. Then follow the instructions in the video and it'll work great!
Thank you for explainung this nice feature! It's a pity that it vectories raster images, but there is no option for vector images: my result was just ugly vectorized : (
The easiest way to scale is by playing with the "DPI" setting when importing the PNG. Higher DPI, smaller logo (but will maintain the information in the original image)
Hi Chris, can the graphics be added to the copper side of the board such as test can be done. I don't want it to be stenciled on the board. You help is greatly appreciated. If it to be in your next video I can wait for then. Thank you for the video on the graphics.
Loizos, if you mean the back side, or THT solder side, if you set the graphics for Silkscreen, you can 'E'dit the graphic to be on the back after placement. I often do this. You will discover that you will need to rotate the graphic to taste.
@@MrOrangeman18 Once you have made the library module, edit the file with a plain text editor (I use Notepad ++) and change the F.SilkS tags to B.SilkS - In Notepad++ you can do a search and replace to automate it. If you look at other MOD files, you can see the tags you need for different layers. F.Cu or F.Mask for example.
Steve Smith cheers. I found a much simpler way to do it in the end. Added the new footprint (the picture) went into footprint editor and changed it from front to back silk and all sorted.
Thank you buddy. Creating a PCB for work and they requested that their logo be on it. Without your video idk what I would’ve done lol
I know what you'd have done. You'd have done what I did. Panic. For 3 HOURS!
One of my favourite things is to put my graphics on boards. KiCad is much better than Eagle in that respect. One day there will be a basic graphics editor included in the suite :-)
I had a PNG that wasn't playing nice (the colors were not reversing to negative). I recommend bringing the PNG into MS paint and saving it out as a 24 bit BMP. Then follow the instructions in the video and it'll work great!
I hope one day there will be the possibility to import SVGs and dimensioning directly once imported. Great stuff, great video :-)
v6 is going to have this feature i think
You can directly import SVGs into footprints and PCBs
This was really useful thanks!
Thank you for explainung this nice feature! It's a pity that it vectories raster images, but there is no option for vector images: my result was just ugly vectorized : (
Super, thanks :)
Any chance custom shapes for pcb edge cuts can be imported into Kicad?
Great tutorial, one question. Can I scale the logo after I place him?
The easiest way to scale is by playing with the "DPI" setting when importing the PNG. Higher DPI, smaller logo (but will maintain the information in the original image)
So there’s no way to import svg’s?
When I import the footprint it shows yellow, not the blue that is the color of silkscreen. How do i change it to blue?
@@tcarney57 I found the problem, I forgot to switch the layer to front silkscreen before exporting the footprint.
thank you Chris! query, could you address the issue of converting footprint .mod to .kicad_mod? thanks greetings.
great thanks!
Hi Chris, can the graphics be added to the copper side of the board such as test can be done. I don't want it to be stenciled on the board. You help is greatly appreciated. If it to be in your next video I can wait for then. Thank you for the video on the graphics.
Loizos, if you mean the back side, or THT solder side, if you set the graphics for Silkscreen, you can 'E'dit the graphic to be on the back after placement. I often do this. You will discover that you will need to rotate the graphic to taste.
@@stevesm2010 how do you edit this? i to want it on the back? cheers
@@MrOrangeman18 Once you have made the library module, edit the file with a plain text editor (I use Notepad ++) and change the F.SilkS tags to B.SilkS - In Notepad++ you can do a search and replace to automate it. If you look at other MOD files, you can see the tags you need for different layers. F.Cu or F.Mask for example.
Steve Smith cheers. I found a much simpler way to do it in the end. Added the new footprint (the picture) went into footprint editor and changed it from front to back silk and all sorted.
Thanks!!