So you’ve made a few printed circuit boards (PCB’s) and now you have to manually solder all of those tiny 0402 SMD components. Or you are just curious how you can make your life easier when soldering a lot of SMD components. Search no more!
You’ve probably heard of stencils before and they are everywhere. Think of those: letter stencils, paint stencils and well I can go on with this list until the cows come home. But thats not the point. We want to make our life easier. Thats why we are going to make our own.
Get your design files ready. Export the TOP layer as a Gerber. (or directly as a SVG if your PCB design software is capable of doing that)
And then its time to set the correct settings or well at least the one that worked for me.
Bit size: .6mm Feedrate: 310mm/min Depth per pass: .5mm And the depth of the items to be cut is set at 1mm
The laser power is set to 1W
I love to see what you make! And if you have found an easier way to do this or have suggestions be sure to comment.
