PCB making in China

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Warpspeed Guru Joined: 09/08/2007 Location: Australia Posts: 4406	Posted: 10:19pm 09 Jul 2019       Gerbers are now the only way to access the really low cost Chinese circuit boards. Whatever PCB design package you finally decide to learn on, make absolutely sure it can generate Gerbers in the RS274X format. There are a whole range of options from freeware that can be a real pain to convert to Gerbers, or low cost entry design packages that have serious limitations. These limitations usually are either a maximum physical board size, or the number of nodes (pads) you can place onto the board. So three things to look for apart from cost: 1/ does it create Gerber 274X output files ? 2/ Maximum physical PCB size 3/ Maximum number of pads/components Cheers,  Tony.