Nice video. How could I use this to thermally stitch together two planes for MOSFET heatsinking ? I would need to remove soldermask on the grid of via's
Great video, thanks. I'm considering switching to Kicad and hopefully you can answer this question. With the current package that I'm using, if you want to move a component within a copper fill, you have to redraw the copper fill. However when you redraw the copper fill, the connectivity to the vias is lost and all vias have to be deleted and re-entered. Does this also apply to Kicad?
+sefton999 this often happens when you do via stitching "with traces" as mentioned in this video: th-cam.com/video/TlH8KlO3lZc/w-d-xo.html In the method shown in the video above, the stitching should not have any issues when you redraw the copper planes. One thing that is not mentioned is "locking" the footprints, that's a good idea for stitching vias for when you re-import footprints (a separate issue).
Hi Chris. Do you know if oshpark supports this? About to send off for a board using this trick and wouldnt want to wait for a bad board to arrive. Thanks. Your channel has been really helpful
If you are regularly doing orders from Oshpark, you could throw in a 'will-this-work' PCB with features you want to explore... Their online documentation of feature support is pretty good though. For some semi/unsupported features they will automatically send you an email if they strike an issue.
Don't want to set a foot print manually? Did i sleep through the day all mfgs put up universally compatible cad files for every part in their library? I'm in the egal world so maybe there's a specific I'm missing but learning how to enter a foot print and symbol myself was probably the biggest time saver there is.. Otherwise it's something like spend 15 min checking websites for an existing one only to find its wrong, if found at all.. Then half as try my own never having spent the time to figure it out.. Giving up and looking for a diff part. It's nice when a library has an existing foot print but a lot of parts I want to use have been in weird packages and even the built in libraries aren't always trustable.
Nice info, but I would suggest putting the microphone refrigerator more IN out OUT of frame. eighter hide your face completely, or hide the microphone. this just ridiculous
Thanks man, i am using kicad more than 3 years, today i learn about array. It helped me a lot,saved my tons of time..
A great trick! Really dumb that we have to do something like this instead of it being built in, but it works and I'll take it.
Thanks Chris Gammell for the video hope to see you in Australia one day.
meet up at EEVblog for a BBQ. :)
As of today, Dec 6 2018, when you use Tools -> Update PCB from Schematic ... it blows out all your nice new stitching vias. I'm using Version 5.0.
worked for me, thanks
Nice video. How could I use this to thermally stitch together two planes for MOSFET heatsinking ? I would need to remove soldermask on the grid of via's
Great video, thanks. I'm considering switching to Kicad and hopefully you can answer this question. With the current package that I'm using, if you want to move a component within a copper fill, you have to redraw the copper fill. However when you redraw the copper fill, the connectivity to the vias is lost and all vias have to be deleted and re-entered. Does this also apply to Kicad?
+sefton999 this often happens when you do via stitching "with traces" as mentioned in this video: th-cam.com/video/TlH8KlO3lZc/w-d-xo.html
In the method shown in the video above, the stitching should not have any issues when you redraw the copper planes. One thing that is not mentioned is "locking" the footprints, that's a good idea for stitching vias for when you re-import footprints (a separate issue).
Hi Chris. Do you know if oshpark supports this? About to send off for a board using this trick and wouldnt want to wait for a bad board to arrive.
Thanks. Your channel has been really helpful
If you are regularly doing orders from Oshpark, you could throw in a 'will-this-work' PCB with features you want to explore...
Their online documentation of feature support is pretty good though.
For some semi/unsupported features they will automatically send you an email if they strike an issue.
Can you guide me for converting kicad Gerber file into cdr file.
why you use a virtual machine?
Probably he's not fan of using Linux as primary OS.
this is a very useful trick, but it won't work with stitching blind vias
a tented via is unexposed, so it's the other way around
Nice feature. Normally it would take much time to place all the via's individual.
Don't want to set a foot print manually? Did i sleep through the day all mfgs put up universally compatible cad files for every part in their library? I'm in the egal world so maybe there's a specific I'm missing but learning how to enter a foot print and symbol myself was probably the biggest time saver there is.. Otherwise it's something like spend 15 min checking websites for an existing one only to find its wrong, if found at all.. Then half as try my own never having spent the time to figure it out.. Giving up and looking for a diff part. It's nice when a library has an existing foot print but a lot of parts I want to use have been in weird packages and even the built in libraries aren't always trustable.
Nice info, but I would suggest putting the microphone refrigerator more IN out OUT of frame. eighter hide your face completely, or hide the microphone. this just ridiculous
I wish there were actually good quality videos on this topic. Another poorly organized description.