DKRed and PCB Builder

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If you choose to use Kicad, after you’ve gotten your board designed instructions on how to generate the design files for DKRed are located here:

Tutorial for Generating KiCad Design Files (Gerbers) for DKRed

So we’ve designed a circuit board within KiCad, now we want it submitted and have it made through the Digi-Key DKRed custom printed circuit board service. Let’s go through a few simple steps to output the design files, in this case, what we call ‘Gerber’ and Drill files from within KiCad. Within KiCad PCB Editor, to start generating design files, hit File > Plot [PLOT_BUTTON] Make sure these file types/layers are selected, the drill files get generated by a second step: [INCLUDE_THE…