castellations or edge plating. Note that these settings only impact the board attributes output as part of Gerber job files at this time. The Solder Mask/Paste section allow global adjustment of the clearance (positive will result in the finest smoothing. Higher values will result in longer processing time and larger Gerber files. Smoothing amount is a ratio that controls the size of the smoothing chamfers or fillets that 2D printer. Fabrication outputs and plotting KiCad uses Gerber files as its primary plotting format for PCB manufacturing. To create Gerber files, open the Plot… dialog from the File menu, or select

design, including a PCB calculator for determining electrical properties of circuit structures, a Gerber viewer for inspecting manufacturing files, and an integrated SPICE simulator for inspecting circuit the schematic does not require the use of .cmp files. Fabrication and documentation files *.gbr Gerber files, for fabrication. *.drl Drill files (Excellon format), for fabrication. *.pos Position files creates and opens KiCad projects and launches the other KiCad tools (schematic and board editors, Gerber viewer, and utility tools). The KiCad project manager window is composed of a tree view on the left

design, including a PCB calculator for determining electrical properties of circuit structures, a Gerber viewer for inspecting manufacturing files, a 3D viewer for visualizing the finished PCB, and an Open the Plot dialog with File → Plot… . This dialog can plot the design in several formats, but Gerber is usually the right format for ordering from a PCB fabricator. Specify an output directory so useful to plot, but are not typically necessary for PCB fabrication. 36 Click Plot to generate the Gerber files. Also click Generate Drill Files… and then Generate Drill File to create files specifying