Eurocircuits & Kicad

[Karel]

I just received a mailing from Eurocircuits:

"You will now be pleased to know that we have opened these benefits to KiCAD users by providing the possibility to Upload
directly to PCB Visualizer the . kicad-pcb files, this is an encapsulated file format containing all the data required,
with logical layer naming and ordering ensuring no misinterpretation or additional clarification."

http://www.eurocircuits.com/blog/kicad-design-rules/

http://www.eurocircuits.com/blog/kicad-eurocircuits-reads-in-native-kicad-data/

[alexanderbrevig]

I tend to look at the Gerber export as one more chance to see that everything is as I expected, and not just as it seems in KiCAD. Much like printing out text in a different font and size helps your brain to spot errors previously undetected, watching your Gerbers in a different viewer may expose some issues you did not notice in your EDA.

Might be nice for an extremely quick one-off but you'd need to be in a real hurry to skip over the 15 minute process that is Gerber creation and verification for those small boards.

I never use the native upload features. I never will.

[nctnico]

IMHO doing native uploads is better because a lot can go wrong during the Gerber generation stage. Also Eurocircuits has a very extensive web-based PCB checking tool which can show a lot more than you'd see in a gerber viewer.

[VinzC]

Regardless of whether *you* would send native PCB files or not, it's a great honour from a PCB manufacturer such as Eurocircuit to support the open source PCB Kicad. Kicad developers must be proud of their product in regard of such an achievement. To see an open source PCB project supported amongst two other giants like Altium and Eagle is a reward to no other comparable. This proves Kicad as a serious alternative, like it or not.

Congratulations, guys  !

[Deridex]

Regardless of whether *you* would send native PCB files or not, it's a great honour from a PCB manufacturer such as Eurocircuit to support the open source PCB Kicad. Kicad developers must be proud of their product in regard of such an achievement. To see an open source PCB project supported amongst two other giants like Altium and Eagle is a reward to no other comparable. This proves Kicad as a serious alternative, like it or not.

Congratulations, guys  !

Gotta agree on this. Let's see how long it takes em, to change all the guides and other documents to this state.