It will create all the needed production files for PCB manufacturing and PCB assembly, primarily focused on JLCPCB.
Each Revision is generated in full, inside the revision directory, and is expected to be committed to Git, perhaps
with the exception of the Gerber and Drill files, which exists inside a Zip file. Set that up with .gitignore if
those files shouldn't be committed to Git.
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Expectations;
- Revisions are "A", "B", "C" or "A1", "B1", "B2" or similar.
- Executions has the KiCAD project directory as $PWD/$CWD
- The name of the directory is the same name as the KiCAD project files.
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Extracts the Revision a "Text Variable" named "REVISION" from the project file.
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Sets the "Date" field to current date in both Schematics and PCB page settings.
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Create a directory named "rev_${REVISION}", and store all generated outputs in that directory.
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Generate the Gerber and Drill files.
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Zip the Gerber and Drill files.
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Generate a component placement file, (only Top side). CSV format is for JLCPCB.
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Generate BOM.csv
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Generate SVGs
- One SVG per sheet
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Generate PDFs
- Schematics
- PCB with outer layers only, useful for manufacturing.
- PCB with all "useful" layers, i.e. remove Fab, Courtyard, Margin, User-ECO*, User_Comment and Adhesive.
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(Optional) Generate 3D model (STEP or GLB/GLTF). Put "GEN_3D" as an argument with either "STEP" or "GLB" as the value, example
GEN_3D=GLB create-prod-files.sh