Place a component to send to production

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Hi everyone.

I’m not an expert, I know how to make simple PCBs and how to send them to production.

But now I need to position a component on a PCB and I don’t have the time to study it, and I don’t understand anything…
I just need to put a 0.5mm pitch, 5-pin FFC connector on the back of my board.

I need someone to export the Geber and Bom for that single component from my kikad file.
Can anyone do that?
Of course, I’d pay for the trouble, via PayPal or whatever you prefer.

Thanks everyone in advance.

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Sounds like a joke.

  1. You export gerber for whole PCB and not for single component.
  2. BOM containing single component = one text line - you can write it even manually.
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And pick and place info if it’s surface mount . . .

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Probably best if you start from scratch and read through the documents on how KiCad works.

You can’t just add a connector to a PCB and the Gerber magically knows how to connect up everything.

Instead of getting someone to do it you should consider learning how to use the tool.

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In the time you will spend trying to explain exactly what you want (even if someone takes the offer) you would read through the Getting Started guide and would know how to do it yourself. Communicating specs is time consuming and difficult.

My estimation for outsourcing: 15 minutes for drawing and exporting files. 10 hours for communication.

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adding to this, if OP uses something like JLC, there are plugins in the addon manager that reduce this whole effort to a single click

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Hi everyone, thanks for the replies.

I followed all the guides, and in the end I opted to manually write the BOM and Pick & Place file. However, I kept getting errors on Jlpcb, so I started chatting with the operators until one finally helped me fix a mistake in the BOM. In the end, I managed to do it. Unfortunately, the price of my flexible PCBs went from €150 to €400, and at the end of the quote, it reached €700… and they said so because flexible PCBs are expensive.

So I bought the thermal paste and soldered the component with the hot air from my soldering station. It’s not easy, but I won’t spend all this money just for a connector; I’d rather spend a day soldering them with a lot of patience.

Thanks everyone for your help.