Welcome to Part 4 of my complete KiCad PCB Design Course! 🚀
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In the previous episode, we took our finished schematic into the KiCad PCB Editor, assigned footprints, placed the components, created the board outline, and viewed the PCB in 3D.Now it's time to actually build the PCB.In this video, we start PCB routing and learn how to turn the ratsnest connections into real copper tracks. Along the way, we'll also learn how PCB design rules work, how to choose a practical trace width, how manufacturer capabilities affect our PCB design, how to create a copper zone/ground plane, and how to use KiCad's Design Rule Checker.This is one of the most important stages of PCB design because a PCB isn't just about connecting components. We also need to make sure the board follows electrical, physical, and manufacturing requirements.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 Introduction00:44 Starting from the previous PCB layout01:12 Correcting the board dimension layers02:24 Track widths02:52 Using LTSpice to Measure Current03:33 Calculating trace width05:30 Checking JLCPCB manufacturing capabilities06:21 Laying Out the Copper Traces07:20 What is Vias | Making Vias in the PCB10:20 Creating a GND copper zone10:00 PCB routing12:32 Adding Brand Name to PCB13:04 Adding Brand Logo to PCB16:00 Final Design Rule Check16:54 Outro━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔧 TOPICS COVERED━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• KiCad PCB routing• KiCad PCB Editor• PCB trace routing• PCB trace width• PCB design rules• KiCad Board Setup• KiCad Net Classes• Pre-defined track widths• PCB clearance• Copper-to-edge clearance• PCB vias• F.Cu and B.Cu• Copper zones• Ground plane• GND copper pour• PCB silkscreen• PCB logo• JLCPCB PCB capabilities• PCB manufacturing rules• Design Rule Check• KiCad DRC• PCB 3D Viewer• Beginner PCB design━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚡ TRACE WIDTH & CURRENT━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Before routing the PCB, we look at the approximate current flowing through our circuit and use that information to select a practical trace width.For this beginner PCB, we're using a comfortable 0.3 mm routing width rather than designing right at the manufacturer's absolute minimum.This is an important PCB design principle:Manufacturer capability ≠ recommended design value.A PCB may be manufacturable with very small traces, but using sensible design margins can make routing easier and give your design more practical manufacturing tolerance.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🏭 PCB MANUFACTURING━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━We also look at JLCPCB's PCB manufacturing capabilities and compare manufacturing limits with the design rules we configure inside KiCad.The goal isn't simply to memorize manufacturing numbers.The goal is to understand how the manufacturer, electrical requirements, and KiCad design rules work together when designing a real PCB.JLCPCB:https://jlcpcb.com/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 ABOUT THIS KICAD COURSE━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━This is a beginner-friendly KiCad PCB design course covering the complete PCB workflow.We'll gradually learn:✅ Schematic design✅ Components and symbols✅ Wiring✅ ERC✅ Net labels✅ Footprints✅ PCB layout✅ Component placement✅ PCB routing✅ Trace width✅ Design rules✅ Copper zones✅ Ground planes✅ DRC✅ Gerber generation✅ PCB manufacturing✅ Real-world PCB projectsThe goal isn't just to learn where the buttons are in KiCad.The goal is to understand why we make these design decisions and how the complete PCB design process works.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━▶️ WATCH THE COURSE FROM THE BEGINNING━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Part 1 – KiCad & PCB Design Introduction:https://youtu.be/pih_OFaRNVIPart 2 – Schematic Wiring, ERC & Footprints:https://youtu.be/Q5bkeypLaCwPart 3 – From Schematic to PCB:https://youtu.be/GB52FW4pibcPart 4 – PCB Routing, Design Rules & DRC:You're watching it now! 🔥━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 FULL KICAD COURSE PLAYLIST━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMNOSPfM9J1dJcvVuaiutZCnwWLF5l_3━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌐 MORE FROM ROBOREAR━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━YouTube:https://youtube.com/@RoborearWebsite:https://roborear.comIf you're interested in robotics, electronics, PCB design, KiCad, Arduino, sensors, embedded systems, and DIY engineering projects, subscribe and follow the complete course.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💬 QUESTION FOR YOU━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━What kind of PCB should I design in the next part of this course?Leave your project idea in the comments!#KiCad #PCBDesign #PCB #KiCadTutorial #PCBLayout #Electronics #PCBDesignTutorial #DRC #JLCPCB #Robotics