Beginners guide to PCB design with EasyEda Part 1

hey guys so it's been awhile since I did any PCB designs and I've been sitting on a few ideas and then out of the blue GLC PCB sent me an email asking if I'd like any boards and to feature in a video so I thought why not because as you can see I've used GLC a lot in the past and for all my boards so the box arrived this week and got all my goodies and the first to me which was a stencil to use which have never done before and I went for the new matte-black boards and a few other penalized boards as well so those are going to be use for future videos but one bit shorter day is a beginner's guide on going through the various processes on creating your PCB going from doing your schematic to complete that of a PCB layout and then just a few little things that you may need to do right through to order in your board and what you need to look out for on that now this has ended up being a long set of videos so I came to apologize but not apologize because it just to cram everything in so absolutely this into three videos so rule V T so to get going the first thing we're gonna do is we are going to go to easy idiot calm the chill ticket of this website and then you're going to click on easy easy designer if you haven't got an account you have to create one and login and then what you're going to get is your default workspace which shows your ongoing projects and any news of new versions or anything like that and it'll tell you what's coming out so the first thing we're gonna do is to create a schematic now that's what you want to use for your basis of all your PCBs you can go straight doing the PCB itself but then it's going to be extremely hard if it starts getting complicated design or if it starts needing any modifications and changes it's gonna be a nightmare so before we create that schematic what we're going to do is we're going to create a new project in the idea is to keep everything organized and out of the way so we're going to create an LED we moths project and here you have an option to set it private so owning yourself can view it and edit it or you could to that public but you can always change that down the line if you wanted to share a design with someone okay so because if smart gets that important it takes you straight into the schematic page it's normally a good idea to see set the tail so the first thing we're going to do is going to go across the e live which is built a library of components so what we need first is a power supply so we're going to click on this one here which is a barrel Jack so if I press space I can rotate a component round to the orientation that I want it so it'd do that there then open the wiring tools we're going to use the five volt which is called a net flag and so if we connect this here so if we place this here then you notice it still sees five volts a weaker players a few of these around and then if you right-click it removes the selection where you can do is very much like a text edit I can just do a bounding box select a few things and then I can hit delete so what we're going to do is start with this connected the five volt line up with pin number one so I've clicked on the wiring to a layer and you'll notice if i zoom right in here you get a dot which signifies that you've kind of got it selected you got a connection there and then we're going to connect that up in two so then what we're going to need after that is a capacitor just to make sure we get some smoothen on that so I'm just going to leave that in that orientation there because the positive is on the five volt so we're going to connect of ground here you notice I'll move down here and then when I move left it automatically puts a turn in the wiring and then we're going to intersect through the capacitor here and then we're going to right-click now at this point you want to finish if you left-click what happens is it just makes that a junction and then presumes you want to go from there now when you do right-click it stops on the location where it was and then you'll notice we've still got the Red Cross here and that means it would do another lane so if I right click and then right click again it gets rid of that in previous before we select out and can just delete it so what we're going to do is we're going to put a ground into the design here and then we'll place that there again which was groan right-click gets rid of it one tip is if you want to place something being conjunction with the line but be set back rather than having to do in individual wire what you can do is if you place the five all there and if we select it and notice you need you have the text and the object selected and then we drag that up it's automatically gonna put a turn so in its most basic form that's the input and that's going to give us something on the fire bolt line and then something on the ground lane so what's a good practice to do is to put a rectangle around this element just case the left click in there and then we're going to get a text left-click once again right click we get rid of it and if you double click it you can edit the text there so we're gonna see a power input and then I just like to change the infill scale to dotted line there so that's a nice little self-contained module and so if we changed anything with the input we would just modify this one section and then we'd be good so the next thing is we're going to use a custom part so rather than use the a library we're gonna need to input a criteria so I've searched for previously so if I search for we must mini your show see it shows user-contributed part so what we're gonna do is we're going to select one of these user-contributed parts and you'll notice there's many parts but you do need to be aware that you need to check it to ensure that everything is all right with that part generally you wouldn't have to do 4 capacitors and other things but it's handy to and but you are gonna have to do that with something like a we must D 1 mini so we're gonna select this little guy here so you'll notice once I've selected them there and I go back under the canvas I can then left-click once against image for a right-click to get rid of that but I can't sell that and then we're gonna select him and we're gonna move them across here so for the we mas what we're gonna need to do is to get some power in there so if we place the five walnut flag here left click once then let go then we can drag it along and I can even do a space there and that's going to give us our five volt because we've already mentioned and the empower input that five volt is connect to this jack so we don't need to do a line directly between these two and that's where when you start now generally a lot of people run foul and it creates a real big mess so we're going to also connect up ground and I'm gonna right-click that stop that and then we're gonna do ground there now what we're going to do is we're gonna want to hook up an LED to d5 so we could do an LED here in the spin-off the vemos but if you're starting to do that with a lot of circuits it's going to get very messy in the same way that I mentioned about the power input so one useful thing we can use is a net port so for you get a net port here and if we press it there and then if we select them drag them out so we've got some more line there double-click this and I'm gonna call this LED so now that's the we master section finished and this is just a very basic circuit so I'll just be consistent I'll change this dashed line so I got text again click once right click I'm going to change this to we okay so you know to move around on PC you're gonna right click and that will move you around the schematic if you've got a mouse with a scroll wheel you can zoom in and out which is very handy so the next thing we're going to do is the led so we're gonna use one of the built in and I'm going to use the search command there so yeah we'll go we've got the led and again we're gonna cross space to rotate that round and so I'm just gonna place him down there ready to get rid of so what we're going to do is this is going to feed back to ground and right click and then we're going to feed this down here right click now on the search pin if you pick the cross it'll get rid of what you've been searching for and we're gonna put a resistor in there give me let's use the EU or the US dollar and I'm just gonna line up the edge of that directly there I'll right click and then what you can do is you can just modify the text to signify what level of resistor you're going to have and then what we are gonna do is another net port and the idea is that will match up with a net port of already created now you notice it's automatically set the text as LED and that's because it remembers the text of the last Network that you used to Detroit handy little feature so pre same as before we're gonna click there and then I'll drag him out now this means again as before it's as if you've got a direct connection from this wire in line here to this way in line here so just for completeness you're gonna put a pound a box on there what I'm a dashed and that's just my preference and then you call this LED and this is a nice tidy schematic if we were to add anything else to d2 or d3 any other sensors we could just do more boxes and you can expand things out and it makes it much easier to manage so now we've got that you'll notice that one thing London has saved the project so we're gonna go to file and we'll see if because we'd already created the project it's done that automatically and we've got this it's called a cheat one we can rename that just watching guys I hope this has been of some use and while Maeby's do is follow up with the another more advanced video in the future so in some showing some of the food that techniques that you can use in the software and different options I can choose such as stencil and things like on the checkout please feel free I like subscribe and 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Channel: Colin Hickey

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Length: 11min 15sec (675 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 02 2019