Custom Graphics for PCB Silkscreen in KiCAD
AVR wrote 04/13/2018 at 11:37 • 2 pointsHow is everyone who uses KiCAD getting their custom graphics and logos onto the silkscreen? I've been out of the loop for about a year, when I was using KiCAD extensively in August 2016 I never quite managed to figure it out. So yeah what methods are folks using to get custom graphics/logos/symbols into the silkscreen of their KiCAD boards?
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Brian's doing a workshop on this very thing at Hackaday Belgrade next month (and wrote the article linked by Nelson).
You also might get some good tips reading through the transcript from the PCB Photos and Art Hack Chat:
https://hackaday.io/event/112119-pcb-artwork-and-photo-conversions/log/144727-pcb-artwork-photo-conversions-hack-chat-transcript
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Is this what you are looking for https://hackaday.io/project/18508-mr-robot-badge/log/53901-this-is-how-you-do-art-in-kicad
a more basic way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAlBWQTAWJU&t=1s
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I've had good results in the past with https://github.com/wayneandlayne/svg2kicadmod. It's three years old at this point, so there might be something more modern. I should maybe look into that, what with me being on the KiCad library team now and all!
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