r/KiCad

I’m an Industrial Engineering student with a big interest in the art of PCB design, and I decided to make it the focus of my thesis.

There’s a ton of material online about schematic capture and layout, but I’ve found surprisingly little about everything that happens before and after those stages which is exactly what I’m researching.

So I’d love to interview people who work professionally with PCBs, whether you’re a designer, engineer, librarian, manufacturer, reviewer, sourcing person, or involved anywhere else in the process.

It would just be an informal conversation about how things actually work in practice. And if you’re comfortable with it, I’d also be happy to cite your experience in the thesis.

If you’d be willing to help, please comment or DM me :)

P.S. Even if you’re not interested, please leave an upvote, it would genuinely help this reach the right people

Phils Lab board

Hello. I'm following "PhilsLab's tutorial for KiCAD 9"(very popular video) where he uses netclasses colouring. I want to use them because he said it is easier to understand and generally a good practice to use net class colouring. But as you can see here it makes it difficult to distinguish what signals are on which layer. What are your thoughts on netclasses colouring. Would you say Phils Lab is wrong?

My board routes problem