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This is a great article. Just this year I've become partially involved in hardware design again after some years now doing mostly just software - it's amazing h
by csirac2 12y ago
This is a great article. Just this year I've become partially involved in hardware design again after some years now doing mostly just software - it's amazing how cheap fab options are these days!
I recently got a few quotes for contract assembly of some small boards, ~100 SMT parts each and the prices ranged from $12 to $200 per board. Hand-assembled, because the quantities weren't sufficient for pick & place.
I didn't see any mention of KiCad's DRC rules, how does this compare with EAGLE? Specifying solder vs paste mask clearances is something I briefly agonized over but it seems Eagle has sane defaults there that worked out okay in the end.
- rheingoldheavy 12y agoBack when I decided to pick an economical design tool, I had a four layer board to design and the price was right with KiCad, so I never got into using EAGLE. The clearance issue is one that I do have to wrap my brain around each time I do it, just like pin spacing on custom footprints. I put that down to my own personal issues with keeping three digit numbers straight in my head though, rather than any particular problem with KiCad in general. That's why I consider doing the Gerber visual diff so vital, because it's very easy to tell when you've screwed up the solder vs. paste clearance.