Omar Senbisy FAB Academy 2021 / PCB / 1. Exporting files

1. Exporting files

Exporting gerber files from KiCAD

First, we need to download KiCAD from the internet and it’s available for free, and you can go through this link: https://www.kicad.org/download/windows/

InstallKiCAD

Then we go to File>Plot and then we click plot and then generate drill files as shown

export

Gerber viewer software

Then we open the layers in Gerber viewer

Gerbvfilesimport and we color them all in black in order to export them in white and black

ExportasPDF

Gimp software

Then we import them in any photo editor software, and here I will use Gimp to edit the traces and invert its colors and remove the outline from its photo We have to make the Mode as indexed in order to get the colors only black and white

indexed

Then we export them as png to get the final files as following

finalPNG

Now we are ready fro fabrication