Generating Gerbers and Ordering Boards

Course Posts (Projects) Getting To Blinky
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Originally published at: https://contextualelectronics.com/topic/generating-gerbers-and-ordering-boards/

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Hi,

I am using KiCad 5 and also have front and back paste files. What do I do with those?

Thanks for your help and thanks for the videos!

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In theory, you could get solder paste stencils from someone like OSH stencil. We show hand soldering in the subsequent videos instead.

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I’ve gotten to the last video and I find my silkscreen layer is displaying underneath my copper layer. So for example at 2:40 where you see D1, R3, C1 and so on, I don’t see them unless I turn the front copper layer off. Is this user error or a KiCad problem or … ? I’m using KiCad 5.1.5 on Linux.

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Try clicking just on the layer name. I find that brings it to the top. If you double click in the colour, the you can reduce the opacity and the other layers can show through

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Ah, now it starts to make sense, thanks.

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