EDA cloud tools that are related to electronics are emerging exponentially in almost all aspects (i.e. simulation, PCB design, footprint creation, Gerber files viewing, and 3D PCB viewing). Even well-known desktop programs like EAGLE CAD and Altium are trying to compete in this field by making their own services or by acquiring others.
Web-based EDA tool suites like EasyEDA and Upverter are getting rapidly famous. These online tools offer some outstanding solutions for collaboration and providing some viable features for teams with financial limits like multi-layer PCB designing, while it costs a lot to buy a license for other EDA tools with a multi-layer feature, for example.
In this course, EasyEDA is going to be explained to live the experience of using this web-based tool. It’s not hypocrisy to say that this tool is a very sophisticated tool that has everything you need to make your PCB in no time.
What You Will Learn In This Course:
- What is this platform and why are you should use it
- How to create a free account
- Interface explained in details
- How to get from idea to PCB design and order PCBs
- How to create a simple schematic and PCB design and get the 3D view
- How to create an Arduino power shield using this free platform and prepare it for manufacturing
- How to get the Gerber file
- How do use other people designs and edit them for free
- How to order a PCB online and things to set before doing that.
- Tips and tricks for a great PCB design and manufacturing process
- How to create a component in case you can’t find it in the online library.
- Tricks and tips about tracks, rules, exposed copper, board outline
- Schematic editor including NgSpice-based simulation, WaveForm viewer, and other common features.
- PCB layout editor including PCB photo viewer, Gerber viewer, scripts support, and other features.
- Library editor and manager.
- Integrated PCB fabrication and components purchase service.
- Team collaboration with good sharing capabilities.
Keep in mind, that this will be a step-by-step course to explain the general structure of this tool and to highlight the most important features.
