Hackaday

Creating A PCB In Everything: KiCad, Part 2

This is the continuation of a series where I create a PCB in every software suite imaginable. Last week, I took a look at KiCad, made the schematic representation for a component, and made a schematic ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Open PCB Files

A PCB file is a data file containing a circuit board design, and stands for "Printed Circuit Board." You don't need the program that was used to create the file; several Windows applications with PCB ...
Hackaday

Creating A PCB In Everything: Eagle DRC And Gerber Files

For the next post in the Creating A PCB series, we’re going to continue our explorations of Eagle. In Part 1, I went over how to create a part from scratch in Eagle. In Part 2, we used this part to ...
Electronic Design

Sunstone Circuits’ New CAD Conversion Directly Uploads PCB Design Files

Sunstone Circuits®, a PCB prototype solutions provider, now offers a CAD conversion service when placing an order for the company’s Full Feature or Quickturn PCBs. With the new native file upload ...
EDN

Altium CircuitStudio review: The glory

Last December I downloaded a trial of the Altium CircuitStudio circuit board CAD (computer-aided design) program. It’s buggy, slow to load, crashes occasionally, and has a new and infuriating user ...
EDN

Know How Your PCB Vendor Use Your Files

The designer finish the layout and put it into the package files for production,after discussing with the vendor on price and lead time ,you will finally decide the place to make the boards. Is it ...