From the course: Learning PCB Design with OrCAD
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Generate PCB documentation - OrCAD Tutorial
From the course: Learning PCB Design with OrCAD
Generate PCB documentation
- [Instructor] Your board is out for manufacturing. But what if you want to share your design with others, or you want to review it sometime later on yourself? Producing documentation in this way is not only essential for record-keeping, but serves as an excellent reference for future projects. So, let's go ahead and generate some PCB documentation. First of all, I really like the 3D feature for PCB. So, I'm going to go with 3D. All right, this looks great. Now, let's go to File, Export, PDF 3D. In my Allegro folder, I'm going to create a folder called Docs, (keyboard clicking) so PCBDocs. And, I'll go into that folder, and we'll name this MyProject3D. (keyboard clicking) Hit save. The 3D PDF has been generated. Go ahead and close this window. Next, we will generate a PDF for all the artwork layers on the PCB. So, go to Export, Gerber, and we need to rearrange the order of these layers, so that they print off in the right order. They have a different set of numbers for each layer, and…
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