LAYOUT FILES: KiCad footprints useful for PCB panelization (mouse-bites...). This was oringinally forked from madworm/Panelization.pretty. The following changes were made in each footprint for process efficiency.
- The half-circles (originally on F.Silkscreen) are now on the Edge Cuts layer, since the silkscreen is unnecessary and the half-circles were tedious to add.
- Footprints are excluded from schematic and BOM, as well as exempted from the Courtyard requirement
- Download/clone this repo into your user footprints library.
- In KiCad, open Preferences -> "Manage Footprint Libraries ..."
- Add an empty row to the Global Libraries
- Name it ("Panelization") and point it to your clone
- Place the footprint on your pcb edge
- Connect the Edge.Cuts layer to the footprint
- Profit?!?!
the 5mm wide mouse bites:
2mm wide connecting different layouts:
when your PCB is ready, mark everything, then right click and "Create Array". Choose a grid that the spacing matches the choosen mouse bite width.
then place mouse bite footprint and modify the Edge.Cuts layer on the first pcb. Then just "Create Array" on this again.
A Video showing different ways to make panels in KiCad:
