KiKit offers fully automatic export of all data required for fabrication of your designs. Since every fabrication house has different requirements on the design files (e.g., special names of gerber files, different requirements for assembly files) there is no "universal exporter" in KiKit. Instead, KiKit offers special command for each supported fabrication house.
Note: click on the name of the manufacturer to see corresponding documentation:
- JLC PCB: board manufacturing, SMD assembly. https://jlcpcb.com/
- PCBWay: board manufacturing, assembly. https://www.pcbway.com/
To add a new fabrication command you have to extend KiKit's source code. A rather basic knowledge of python is required to do so.
Create a new file kikit/fab/fabhousename.py and implement a new command with
the same name as the file. Then add the command to kikit/fab/__init__.py. The
common functionality for all fabrication houses should be located in
kikit/fab/common.py. You can use kikit/fab/jlcpcb.py for inspiration.
Once you implement a support for new fabrication house, open a pull request on KiKit's GitHub page.