Hello, I am having problems with bom and cpl files for jlcpcb, I want to assemble the parts on the PCB from the jlcpcb website, but the cpl file shows ref** in the designator section when things like c1, c2, c3 should appear, can you help me how to fix this?
This is not really a KiCad problem. Did you submit a KiCad project rather than as Gerber plus BOM?
I edited the bom file in the table editing program to be uploaded to the jlcpcb site, but I need to edit it in cplly, but in the parts where I will designator, it says ref**, and when I upload it in this way, the site gives an error. If you have information, please help me. I have been dealing with this problem for a week.
A week?
From memory, JLC requires specific text strings for the columns to recognize them. This: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=jlcpcb+bom finds:
Use this add-on:
It will generate everything for you.
You only have to add JLC part number field as mentioned above by @paulvdh
They improve the plug in constantly, but be careful with footprints rotation (I occasionally have had them at wrong angle).
You can upload the Gerber files to JLC website and check if all is correct (most common KiCAD footprints already have rotation rules and they are seamlessly set on-the-fly, but you can add custom rotation in the addon as well.
My tip - if you create your own footprints - set the rotation the same as on JLC website for the component you want to you.
Plus when uploading files / placing an order - tick an option to confirm production files and then one of their engineers will double check it before sending to manufacture and contact you if there is something wrong.
Another general tip when using JLC - try to use basic parts when possible. If will reduce significantly the cost of PCBA.
Hello, first of all, thank you very much for the method you showed me, I downloaded and installed the plugin you mentioned, but when I open it, the screen is blank. When I click on the download button on the top right, it downloads a file of 200 MB in total, but nothing appears on the screen. In the image you showed, the update library appears, but I always get the download message. To solve this, can you help me?
It should look like that:
I can see two reason it’s empty in your project:
- you didn’t annotate the schematic (you mentioned in the original post that symbol are called REF **, while they should be R1, R2, C1, C2, etc…)
- your symbol don’t have LCSC field added with JLC part number (I added LCSC field for the project and it appears in each symbol properties). see below:
(other fields Basic / Extended, Manufacurer, etc are for my reference, they are not needed for the add-on to work)
Hello Greg, unfortunately what is on your screen does not appear on my screen. If you have knowledge about this subject, if I send you my files, can you convert it into something that can be uploaded to jlcpcb for me? You would really do me a big favor. I am a bit of a novice in PCB and there is no one I can get help from. Thank you in advance.
This has nothing to do with JLCPCB or the plugin, but as greg_m said it is because you didn’t annotate your parts.
Have you gone through the getting started guide at docs.kicad.org? If not, please do that first, it explains all the steps in the process.
thanks bro but i have problem
Hello, as you said, I changed the descriptions, edited the bom and cpl files and made them uploadable, but when I try to upload, I get 2 errors. When I click on the next button, a second error appears and I cannot upload. Do you have any information about this?
Show your CPL and BOM files.
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