Open gerber file to edit PCB

[paulvdh]

KiCad has a gerber viewer, not a gerber editor. There are gerber editors “out there”, but I have no experience with them.

What you can do with KiCad, is to re-create a PCB, and then treat it as any other KiCad project.

Reverse engineering KiCad project from Gerber files

The goal of this reverse-engineering tutorial is to re-create a complete KiCad project from partial information assuming the only information available is a schematic in some readable, (but not EDA form, such as a .pdf or a .png picture), and a set of gerber files. The Gerber files will create a PCB with much PCB information missing, however, using this method is easier than re-designing a PCB from scratch, and can also be extended to any other program that creates Gerber files. What is “resc…