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That's really the killer feature for you? I do have the advantage of one lab back in college where a pro spent 90 minutes instructing a bunch of teenagers how

That's really the killer feature for you? I do have the advantage of one lab back in college where a pro spent 90 minutes instructing a bunch of teenagers how to prepare Gerbers for a class project through Advanced Circuits, but beyond that I've had no problems sending files to OSH Park, JLC, PCBWay, Sunstone, or Advanced Circuits whether they were generated in Eagle, Kicad, or Altium. Even at the low-margin providers like JLC and PCBway they still have a human look over your gerbers (and most provide web viewers for you to see what you've uploaded in those files) to make sure you're not going to order the inverse of your board, or make all your vias unplated, or swap your copper and silkscreen layers, or anything goofy like that. If you do screw up the design, that's on you and the tools won't help, but prices are dirt cheap and turnaround times are screaming fast these days, so it shouldn't be too bad. I don't understand why newcomers find plotting to gerbers so intimidating.

chinabot 3y ago
integration with LCSC for parts and assembly is a killer feature though. I loved getting my PCBs back but then if you need to solder on dozens of 0603 caps and a BGA package it just became another thing to get wrong. As my eyes and coordination are not as good as they were hitting buy now and having fully assembled boards come back for basically the cost of the parts and the PCB was game changing for me.
- LeifCarrotson 3y ago
  JLC-LCSC integration is pretty big for small-volume users, I'll agree. But you can do that with Kicad/LibrePCB just as easy as making boards. You could always have fully-assembled boards come back for basically the cost of the parts...as long as you were at quantity 10k units. Hooray for automation!
- rgoulter 3y ago
  JLCPCB's integration with LCSC for parts is why I've used them for PCBA. I've only done low-volume hobbyist stuff, & prefer KiCad, but I can see that not having to fiddle with BOM/CPL would be a +1 to EasyEDA.

chinabot 3y ago

integration with LCSC for parts and assembly is a killer feature though. I loved getting my PCBs back but then if you need to solder on dozens of 0603 caps and a BGA package it just became another thing to get wrong. As my eyes and coordination are not as good as they were hitting buy now and having fully assembled boards come back for basically the cost of the parts and the PCB was game changing for me.

LeifCarrotson 3y ago
JLC-LCSC integration is pretty big for small-volume users, I'll agree. But you can do that with Kicad/LibrePCB just as easy as making boards. You could always have fully-assembled boards come back for basically the cost of the parts...as long as you were at quantity 10k units. Hooray for automation!
rgoulter 3y ago
JLCPCB's integration with LCSC for parts is why I've used them for PCBA. I've only done low-volume hobbyist stuff, & prefer KiCad, but I can see that not having to fiddle with BOM/CPL would be a +1 to EasyEDA.