Hello
I’m quite new to KiCAD and was wondering how one would go about to create these kind of exposed copper PCB edges that have a smooth transistion between the mounting holes and the edges themselves (see attached pictures). What are the possible ways to acheive that and which one would be the “proper” one? Thanks!
I’m using v7 so, v8/v9 may be a bit different…
• There are a combination of ways to do this and Click’s can be done in the PCB Editor, the Menu’s, Right-Click… multiple ways…
Basically, select desired layer, draw lines, fillet the corners, fill the shape (transfer to Cu Layer if not drawn on Cu).
The Polylines were pre-drawn to save video time/size for posting. And, I did Not do it the most simplest of ways (i.e., drawing Polylines and Filling in one-fell-swoop) thus, there are a couple extra steps shown, such as when I Converted to Polylines on the User layer then, changed the lines from User layer to F-Cu layer. Could have done it all as Polylines and filled them (simple) but, I wanted to show some extra steps so you can see optional ways that, down the road, may be useful…
The Correct way? The correct way is the ‘way’ that gets it done and different PCB features sometimes require some aspects to be done differently from other features… Trying different ways will enhance your capability for efficient work-flow… No consideration was given to DRC errors/etc… and, the shape wasn’t important for demo of the steps…
Wow! Thanks a lot for sharing your solution and even taking the time to make a video, greatly appreciated!
