svg2shenzhen VS xfm2-pcbs

Very cool initiative, i have developed inkscape extension for making creative pcb art, you might be interested in: https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen

And for what it's worth it's never too late to learn KiCad! Free and open souce, plus svg2shenzen makes it really easy to build PCB graphics.

If you're working from a vector image, use Inkscape and the svg2shenzen plugin. Straight forward and works well.

My first blank panel design- I used svg2shenzen to generate the kiCAD project files and referenced the Printable Instruments repo for layer arrangement, format etc.

I'm trying to follow a tutorial on using the plugin svg2shenzhen https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen

I've been using this: https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen

More specifically, it seems like a known issue: https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen/issues/115

For graphics i would suggest the use of https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen (A inkscape plugin that outputs kicad compatible files)

It is certainly possible in kicad if you create your own footprints. There are various tutorials online for creating negative copper artwork in kicad. You might find SVG2shenzhen useful as well

I explored this thing a while back so i just took a lool again. The xfm2 page has a BOM so you just have to source the parts yourself, which are really just the fpga chip, dac, and then a few components which you put together on a portotyping board. No smt soldering is needed. They have a resources page and schematics and all that. They also have files for pcbs that you can have made instesd of using a protoyping board. Looks like theres a basic board snd extended board depending on what your end goal is