so the main question i'm imagining you have right now is dude this is pretty manual what if i have to make a change to the board am i gonna have to go through this entire process every time i want to update my panel and the shorter answer is no it's less than ideal but it is possible to just delete the old board guts drop in the new ones and then retile it but that's not great it's super prone to error and it is still kinda manual the optimal thing is to automate this whole process there happens to be an incredible tool for kycad called kai kit which actually has a built-in panelization functionality there seems to be quite a lot of customization as to what you can make the panels look like and it's super easy to just rerun the script if you want to replantalize the board if you make an update to the original i've not yet played around with this but it is on my to-do list to see how it works and get it so that this whole thing is automated and i don't have to go through this whole manual process every time we re-release another revision of one of these pcbs that being said i am really glad that i did these two by hand i needed to get these panels in asap after we released the revNUMBER_TOKEN version of the motherboards and it only took me a single evening to do both of these panels plus i learned a lot about what actual considerations you need to have when you go through the panelizing process and a little bit more about how kai-cat actually works and what it looks for when you're trying to play around with weird polyline segments and all that kind of stuff it's a really good in between if you need to figure out how to glue some stuff together and make some weird pcbs it's not a bad solution but for a long-term project with frequent revisions and a real need for consistency automating this is definitely the way to go so if you've ever used this feature in kai kit please let me know in the comments i really want to hear about what you did and how you went about using it i'm in the middle of plunking around with it right now and i'd love to hear about your experience all right that's it for this one thank you so much for watching and i'll see you next time but before i go and i think this video's sponsored pcbway pcbway made these panels and they came out so freaking good i mean look at these things i'm really impressed that they managed to i know that they do this all the time i know that they make panels and like it's just new to me it's not new to everybody but this is really cool they really came out great and i did give them a pre-penalized board that i just uploaded as a pcb and they played ball with that they knew what i was trying to go for they adjusted things to to make it work for what i was trying to do if you're looking for a board shop i highly recommend pcboa thank you so much to pcboa for sponsoring this video
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN but before i go and i think this video's sponsored pcbway pcbway made these panels and they came out so freaking good i mean look at these things i'm really impressed that they managed to i know that they do this all the time i know that they make panels and like it's just new to me it's not new to everybody but this is really cool they really came out great and i did give them a pre-penalized board that i just uploaded as a pcb and they played ball with that they knew what i was trying to go for they adjusted things to to make it work for what i was trying to do if you're looking for a board shop i highly recommend pcboa thank you so much to pcboa for sponsoring this video END_SPONSOR_TOKEN