4. Ki CAD Assembly Drawing Design Tips

 

Finalized Assembly Drawing PCB House-Top

 Finalized Assembly Drawing PCB House-Button

  

Download Libs from snap EDA or Ultralibrarian

Edit footprints

• Fab layer — ref designators %R
• Height 0.5mm
• Width 0.5mm
• Thickness 0.15mm
• Fab layer outline of the component
• Delete existing fab layer — hard to see in print format
• Draw in Fab layer on top of cortyad
• Keep fab layer designator inside the fab layer outline

Fab layer important

• Led cathode
• Diode cathode
• IC pin no 1
• Pin header pin no 1
• Multi-pin connecter pin no 1
• Electrolyte capacitor cathode
• Led cathode
• Etc..

Silkscreen designator is not must for mass production or for PCB house