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00:01
Generate 3D models and Gerber files.
00:05
After completing this video, you'll be able to perform AD RC,
00:09
create a three DPC B model and create design file exports
00:16
in fusion. We want to carry on with our PC B module board layout V one.
00:21
At this point, we've created our electronics design
00:24
and we've also created our schematic and we've pushed the schematic into a two
00:29
DPC B where we laid out the location of all of our components.
00:33
The next step in the process is for us to do some DRC or design rule checking
00:38
to generate a three DPC B model as well as create the export files for manufacture.
00:44
So the first step in this process really depends on
00:47
what you are planning to do with your board.
00:49
If you're designing components around it in fusion,
00:52
then you want to make sure that you push it to A three DPC B.
00:56
So we're gonna take a look at pushing to a three E DPC B first
00:59
noting that we have options for what we can push. In
01:02
this case, we want to take the solder mask, the polygons traces and VIAS.
01:07
And we also want to make sure that all of the components are going with it as well.
01:11
Notice that these will have a 3D model associated with them.
01:15
And we did validate that using our libraries,
01:17
making sure that each component did have a 3D component
01:21
as we generate our board. Now, we have a good idea of how this thing looks in 3D.
01:26
We've got our four pjsts on both sides.
01:29
We've got our resistors and we can see the silk screen information for the
01:33
IC one, all the resistors, the led
01:36
the J one and J two for our connectors
01:39
and Q one and Q two for our NPN transistors.
01:42
We can get a good idea of the overall layout of our board and whether or
01:46
not we need to make any adjustments to the size before we go into manufacture,
01:50
everything looks pretty good here.
01:52
So we're gonna do a quick save,
01:54
make sure that we do have our PC B module and we're going to call this 13 DPC B.
02:01
The three DPC V will be saved and stored along with the rest of the project.
02:06
So we're going to close this out
02:08
and navigate back to our PC B module.
02:11
When we take a look at our PC B module, note that our 3D board,
02:14
the top and bottom are listed here,
02:16
but currently, we're not seeing our schematic and our PC B.
02:20
What we can do is we can update these by double clicking and
02:23
checking on each of them to make sure that they are updated properly.
02:26
And then we can make sure that we do a save on this
02:29
and we can go back to each of these,
02:31
the schematic and the PC B to make sure all of them are up to date
02:36
once we're happy and make sure that everything is up to date.
02:39
We want to start to do AD RC or design rule check.
02:42
The DRC is going to allow us to validate our board
02:45
to make sure that all of the design rules are followed.
02:48
We're gonna select, check using all the default standards
02:51
and note that there are going to be some errors and you
02:55
can see that these errors are showing things like wire lines.
02:58
Now, if you see wire lines,
02:59
it is possible that you left a component outside of the board.
03:03
Now, it looks to me like that is not a problem for us
03:07
and,
03:07
but we do want to make sure that we validate this by going through each of these lines
03:12
and seeing if everything works, ok?
03:15
If you do have errors or problems with your board,
03:17
one thing that you can do is you can un route it
03:20
and you can go through the process of routing it again.
03:23
When we take a look at our options, we can en route all
03:27
and then we can go back through and note that our errors
03:30
are only here because now we have un routed air wires.
03:33
So we're gonna go back through the quick route process, go to the auto router,
03:37
continue
03:38
start the process.
03:39
And once again, we're gonna select one of the options that has zero VIAS.
03:44
We'll select end job,
03:45
go back through our DRC,
03:47
do our design rule check and make sure that everything is good this time.
03:51
Notice here we no longer have any errors. Everything has been approved.
03:55
The next step in our process is to check on manufacturing.
03:58
Now, when we do manufacturing settings, we want to take a look at our camp preview.
04:02
First,
04:03
the camp preview will give us an idea of what the board looks like.
04:06
And we get an idea of where all of the through holes or VIAS
04:09
are going to be located.
04:11
We can go to our board settings and get information about the board such as its area
04:15
stack up in this case again, a two layer board
04:18
components, pads,
04:20
drill settings for the number of holes as well as routing information.
04:24
When you're getting a quote for a manufactured PC B,
04:28
there may be some requirements that you need
04:30
to follow things like specific drill hole requirements.
04:33
So making sure that your board does fit within those specific areas is
04:37
going to be important to make sure that the quote does come through.
04:41
The next step in the process is to go to our C
04:43
A processor.
04:45
Now,
04:45
the CAM processor is going to make sure that everything in
04:48
the PC B design is up to date and saved.
04:51
So we'll select, yes, making sure that everything is up to date.
04:55
Next,
04:55
we're gonna be using all of the default settings and exporting this as a zip file.
04:60
A lot of times when you're going to get your boards quoted,
05:02
they'll accept a zip file as long as
05:05
it contains all the applicable output source files.
05:08
Now, as we scroll through these source files that will be created,
05:10
we've got this O DB plus plus file which
05:13
contains things like the solder mask and silkscreen information.
05:17
And then we've got a section for Gerber files
05:20
getting an idea of the requirements of whatever PC B supply house you go with is
05:25
going to be good to make sure that
05:26
you are validating and creating the correct information.
05:29
Now, in our case,
05:30
we are gonna be using Gerber and we're gonna
05:32
take a look at the top and bottom copper layers
05:34
noting that the top layer is going to be our polygon pore and
05:38
it's just going to be machining or removing material around those traces.
05:43
The bottom layer is a little bit different with more material being removed.
05:47
We've got a profile of our board.
05:49
We've got the solder mask on the top and bottom as well as the solder paste,
05:53
top and bottom.
05:54
Silkscreen information on the top and bottom as well.
05:58
There's also drill information
05:60
and a bill of materials as well as some other
06:02
information that's available such as drawing and legacy data.
06:06
Once we're happy with all of our settings,
06:08
we can export that file and we can pick a location to save it
06:12
for me. I'm gonna save it inside of my E
06:14
ad project folder. And then I'm gonna select open
06:17
once our file has been exported, we want to make sure that we open the folder
06:22
and then we navigate through some of the folder structure
06:26
notice inside of here that we've got a PC B module
06:29
board layout and this is gonna be our bill of materials.
06:32
Information about the resistor. We could see 100 and 20 ohms one K 4.7
06:37
our JST connectors
06:39
and we've got information about our voltage
06:41
regulator as well as the NPN transistors.
06:44
So making sure that we do take a look at the information
06:47
that's provided is going to be an important step in that process.
06:51
If anything is missing,
06:52
then we wanna make sure that we do go back and double check all of our settings.
06:57
I'm gonna select the Gerber file and select process job.
07:01
In this case,
07:02
I want to export all of the manufacturer data by selecting
07:05
that Gerber and we're gonna save it in the same location
07:08
and then we'll open that folder
07:09
in
07:09
this case.
07:10
Now we get a zip file and inside of the zip file, we have our CM outputs,
07:15
we've got our O DB files and then underneath our work hub and our project name.
07:19
We've got our Gerber files, our drill files and the assembly,
07:23
the assembly will contain a text document which is our bill of materials.
07:27
And then our Gerber files and drill files will
07:29
be the information that's needed to actually produce the board
07:32
going back through and making sure that you do have all of
07:35
the valid outputs before you send that offer quote will be important.
07:39
Next, we're gonna close this out and make sure that everything has been saved.
07:44
Note that when we went to our manufacture settings, we went to C A processor.
07:48
We also have an option to export
07:50
Gerber and to export the O DB plus plus options.
07:54
If we simply select this,
07:56
we'll be able to go through the process and update our active CM job
07:60
and select. OK? And we can update that output. If we've made any changes to our board
08:05
for us, we want to go back and switch back to our schematic document
08:09
and we wanna just make sure that everything is up to date
08:13
back at the top level. We're gonna do a save
08:16
once everything has been saved,
08:18
we can go ahead and move on to doing some
08:20
of our practice and challenge assignments for this module.
Video transcript
00:01
Generate 3D models and Gerber files.
00:05
After completing this video, you'll be able to perform AD RC,
00:09
create a three DPC B model and create design file exports
00:16
in fusion. We want to carry on with our PC B module board layout V one.
00:21
At this point, we've created our electronics design
00:24
and we've also created our schematic and we've pushed the schematic into a two
00:29
DPC B where we laid out the location of all of our components.
00:33
The next step in the process is for us to do some DRC or design rule checking
00:38
to generate a three DPC B model as well as create the export files for manufacture.
00:44
So the first step in this process really depends on
00:47
what you are planning to do with your board.
00:49
If you're designing components around it in fusion,
00:52
then you want to make sure that you push it to A three DPC B.
00:56
So we're gonna take a look at pushing to a three E DPC B first
00:59
noting that we have options for what we can push. In
01:02
this case, we want to take the solder mask, the polygons traces and VIAS.
01:07
And we also want to make sure that all of the components are going with it as well.
01:11
Notice that these will have a 3D model associated with them.
01:15
And we did validate that using our libraries,
01:17
making sure that each component did have a 3D component
01:21
as we generate our board. Now, we have a good idea of how this thing looks in 3D.
01:26
We've got our four pjsts on both sides.
01:29
We've got our resistors and we can see the silk screen information for the
01:33
IC one, all the resistors, the led
01:36
the J one and J two for our connectors
01:39
and Q one and Q two for our NPN transistors.
01:42
We can get a good idea of the overall layout of our board and whether or
01:46
not we need to make any adjustments to the size before we go into manufacture,
01:50
everything looks pretty good here.
01:52
So we're gonna do a quick save,
01:54
make sure that we do have our PC B module and we're going to call this 13 DPC B.
02:01
The three DPC V will be saved and stored along with the rest of the project.
02:06
So we're going to close this out
02:08
and navigate back to our PC B module.
02:11
When we take a look at our PC B module, note that our 3D board,
02:14
the top and bottom are listed here,
02:16
but currently, we're not seeing our schematic and our PC B.
02:20
What we can do is we can update these by double clicking and
02:23
checking on each of them to make sure that they are updated properly.
02:26
And then we can make sure that we do a save on this
02:29
and we can go back to each of these,
02:31
the schematic and the PC B to make sure all of them are up to date
02:36
once we're happy and make sure that everything is up to date.
02:39
We want to start to do AD RC or design rule check.
02:42
The DRC is going to allow us to validate our board
02:45
to make sure that all of the design rules are followed.
02:48
We're gonna select, check using all the default standards
02:51
and note that there are going to be some errors and you
02:55
can see that these errors are showing things like wire lines.
02:58
Now, if you see wire lines,
02:59
it is possible that you left a component outside of the board.
03:03
Now, it looks to me like that is not a problem for us
03:07
and,
03:07
but we do want to make sure that we validate this by going through each of these lines
03:12
and seeing if everything works, ok?
03:15
If you do have errors or problems with your board,
03:17
one thing that you can do is you can un route it
03:20
and you can go through the process of routing it again.
03:23
When we take a look at our options, we can en route all
03:27
and then we can go back through and note that our errors
03:30
are only here because now we have un routed air wires.
03:33
So we're gonna go back through the quick route process, go to the auto router,
03:37
continue
03:38
start the process.
03:39
And once again, we're gonna select one of the options that has zero VIAS.
03:44
We'll select end job,
03:45
go back through our DRC,
03:47
do our design rule check and make sure that everything is good this time.
03:51
Notice here we no longer have any errors. Everything has been approved.
03:55
The next step in our process is to check on manufacturing.
03:58
Now, when we do manufacturing settings, we want to take a look at our camp preview.
04:02
First,
04:03
the camp preview will give us an idea of what the board looks like.
04:06
And we get an idea of where all of the through holes or VIAS
04:09
are going to be located.
04:11
We can go to our board settings and get information about the board such as its area
04:15
stack up in this case again, a two layer board
04:18
components, pads,
04:20
drill settings for the number of holes as well as routing information.
04:24
When you're getting a quote for a manufactured PC B,
04:28
there may be some requirements that you need
04:30
to follow things like specific drill hole requirements.
04:33
So making sure that your board does fit within those specific areas is
04:37
going to be important to make sure that the quote does come through.
04:41
The next step in the process is to go to our C
04:43
A processor.
04:45
Now,
04:45
the CAM processor is going to make sure that everything in
04:48
the PC B design is up to date and saved.
04:51
So we'll select, yes, making sure that everything is up to date.
04:55
Next,
04:55
we're gonna be using all of the default settings and exporting this as a zip file.
04:60
A lot of times when you're going to get your boards quoted,
05:02
they'll accept a zip file as long as
05:05
it contains all the applicable output source files.
05:08
Now, as we scroll through these source files that will be created,
05:10
we've got this O DB plus plus file which
05:13
contains things like the solder mask and silkscreen information.
05:17
And then we've got a section for Gerber files
05:20
getting an idea of the requirements of whatever PC B supply house you go with is
05:25
going to be good to make sure that
05:26
you are validating and creating the correct information.
05:29
Now, in our case,
05:30
we are gonna be using Gerber and we're gonna
05:32
take a look at the top and bottom copper layers
05:34
noting that the top layer is going to be our polygon pore and
05:38
it's just going to be machining or removing material around those traces.
05:43
The bottom layer is a little bit different with more material being removed.
05:47
We've got a profile of our board.
05:49
We've got the solder mask on the top and bottom as well as the solder paste,
05:53
top and bottom.
05:54
Silkscreen information on the top and bottom as well.
05:58
There's also drill information
05:60
and a bill of materials as well as some other
06:02
information that's available such as drawing and legacy data.
06:06
Once we're happy with all of our settings,
06:08
we can export that file and we can pick a location to save it
06:12
for me. I'm gonna save it inside of my E
06:14
ad project folder. And then I'm gonna select open
06:17
once our file has been exported, we want to make sure that we open the folder
06:22
and then we navigate through some of the folder structure
06:26
notice inside of here that we've got a PC B module
06:29
board layout and this is gonna be our bill of materials.
06:32
Information about the resistor. We could see 100 and 20 ohms one K 4.7
06:37
our JST connectors
06:39
and we've got information about our voltage
06:41
regulator as well as the NPN transistors.
06:44
So making sure that we do take a look at the information
06:47
that's provided is going to be an important step in that process.
06:51
If anything is missing,
06:52
then we wanna make sure that we do go back and double check all of our settings.
06:57
I'm gonna select the Gerber file and select process job.
07:01
In this case,
07:02
I want to export all of the manufacturer data by selecting
07:05
that Gerber and we're gonna save it in the same location
07:08
and then we'll open that folder
07:09
in
07:09
this case.
07:10
Now we get a zip file and inside of the zip file, we have our CM outputs,
07:15
we've got our O DB files and then underneath our work hub and our project name.
07:19
We've got our Gerber files, our drill files and the assembly,
07:23
the assembly will contain a text document which is our bill of materials.
07:27
And then our Gerber files and drill files will
07:29
be the information that's needed to actually produce the board
07:32
going back through and making sure that you do have all of
07:35
the valid outputs before you send that offer quote will be important.
07:39
Next, we're gonna close this out and make sure that everything has been saved.
07:44
Note that when we went to our manufacture settings, we went to C A processor.
07:48
We also have an option to export
07:50
Gerber and to export the O DB plus plus options.
07:54
If we simply select this,
07:56
we'll be able to go through the process and update our active CM job
07:60
and select. OK? And we can update that output. If we've made any changes to our board
08:05
for us, we want to go back and switch back to our schematic document
08:09
and we wanna just make sure that everything is up to date
08:13
back at the top level. We're gonna do a save
08:16
once everything has been saved,
08:18
we can go ahead and move on to doing some
08:20
of our practice and challenge assignments for this module.
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