Uploading Your Board
Once you've finished designing your board it's time to let FlashPCB take over.
Upload your designs
here. We only support
Autodesk Eagle at this time but are
working to support other CAD programs in the near future. Please upload both
your board and schematic Eagle files.
Running design rule checks
We run
a suite of design rule checks
against your board to try to determine if your board is manufacturable. Design
rule checks can have three results:
- ✓ Passed: The design rule check completed successfully with nothing to
report.
- ⚠️ Warn: The design rule check completed successfully but there may be
some impact to our ability to manufacture your board. Pay attention to the
warning messages to see how your board may have been impacted.
- ❌ Error: The design rule check completed unsuccessfully. You will need to
update your design before you can continue.
We generate a series of preview images of your board to give you visual
confirmation of the board design. We generate a top and bottom preview that
appear the same way as they would if the board were in your hand. We also
generate a series of previews from the various layers of your board. These layer
previews all have the same orientation, from the perspective of the top of the
board.
Our AI inspects your board design and uses the device set, package, and Value
text of each component in your design to identify the specific part from our
inventory that best satisfies the intentions of your design. If a component is
unable to be placed (i.e. it did not satisfy a particular design rule check) it
will be marked do not populate and you will see a message explaining why the
component could not be populated.
While our AI takes its best guess at which component best satisfies your design,
you may want to update the selected component. Our interface allows you to
select a different part from our inventory that can be placed on the footprint
you used in your design. We provide filters for you to use in this interface to
help you search for our inventory for your desired part. If you cannot find the
part that you are looking for you can either mark the part as do not populate
and we will leave it unpopulated or you can reach out to us via our contact form
and we will try to add the part as soon as possible.
In order to finish generating the bill of materials and receive a quote for
your board every component in the bill of materials must either have a
component selected for it or you must mark that component as do not populate.
This is the final step of the ordering process. In this stage you will be able
to see your board quote and select the type of shipping you would like for you
order. Your board will be ready to ship within 10 days from the date you placed
your order. We are actively working on cutting our lead time down to deliver you
your boards faster.
We currently only allow orders of up to 10 boards.
Using coupons
You may have coupons available to your account. You can apply these coupons
during the checkout process and each coupon can only be used once. You can apply
any number of coupons to your order.