Guides

Everything PCBPro does, and how to use it

Start with the install guide and the tutorial. Every other guide stands on its own: read the one for what you are building.

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Requirements, installing, the window, a board in six steps, and where things are kept.

A three-knob overdrive from an empty enclosure to an order, in about 45 minutes.

Every bundled project: pedals, tube and solid-state amps, and a 555 flasher.

The board, every tool, the netlist, routing by hand and with the autorouter, pours, net classes and DRC.

1,200+ footprints, the parts catalogue, any LCSC part, KiCad libraries, the wizard, and checking against datasheets.

The board as it will be made, pedals in their boxes, tubes in their sockets, and glowing LEDs.

The new-pedal wizard, Hammond enclosures, mirroring, drill templates, enclosure checks and the build sheet.

Describe the amp, get the circuit, the operating points, the transformers, the sound and a routed board.

Three cascaded-preamp voicings, tightness and depth, the effects loop, and three metal pedals.

Amp templates, tubes on sockets, IPC-2221B spacing by voltage, the amp checks and the tone stack designer.

Run the board: LEDs, switches and knobs, the oscilloscope, tubes, amplifier boards and logic.

ATmega and ATtiny chips running your real compiled firmware, with timers, PWM, the ADC and serial.

Play live, audio play-through, the frequency response and speaker cabinets.

Gerbers, drill files, BOM and CPL, the pre-flight checks and the fab comparison.

A shopping list with search links at four distributors and four pedal shops, and Tayda drilling.

Every keyboard shortcut, the command line and the scripts in tools/.

The board model, pours, the autorouter, the circuit simulator, tubes, the AVR emulator and the real-time audio model.

Fixes for common problems, known issues, and what PCBPro does not do yet.