Easy & Quick EasyEDA Tutorial - USB-C Power Supply Design + Box in 2 Hours

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw schematic, do PCB layout, design a box and how to manufacture everything. As an example you will design USB-C Power Supply.
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Chapters:
00:00 What you will create
00:52 Start a new project in EasyEDA
02:50 Adding USB-C connector to schematic
04:56 Adding output connector
06:24 Connecting USB-C
07:34 Connecting USB-C CC1 and CC2 pins
08:23 Adding 5.1k resistors
09:53 Adding 100nF capacitors
11:47 Adding LED
12:54 Adding 1k resistor
14:57 Selecting in EasyEDA
15:43 Naming nets
16:11 Creating your own component - Mounting holes
17:51 Creating footprint in EasyEDA
19:24 Adding mounting holes to schematic
20:49 Adding CC pin info into schematic
23:26 Annotating schematic
24:27 Enable support for color PCB silkscreen
24:41 Schematic check - Running ERC
24:55 Starting PCB
25:30 Placing big components in PCB (MH, J)
26:35 Define board shape
27:26 Placing small components (R, C, D)
29:12 JLCPCB manufacturing capabilities
29:48 Setting up PCB design rules
30:54 Hide reference designators
31:05 Starting PCB Layout
31:53 Connecting CC pins
32:21 Connecting GND
35:02 Draw DIODE connection
35:20 Making changes in schematic and transferring them to PCB
36:13 Working with polygons (updating, thermal relief)
37:13 Connecting +5V
39:15 Prohibited region
39:57 Place reference designators
41:40 Adding text on silkscreen
46:34 Adding gold logo
48:17 Adding color image on silkscreen
49:28 Starting BOX (enclosure)
51:45 Add openings for connectors
57:11 Add opening for LED
59:13 Adding support for screws
1:03:16 Adding + and - signs
1:05:15 Exporting 3D model and 3D printing box
1:07:32 Generating manufacturing outputs
1:08:16 Generating gerber files for color PCB
1:10:43 Replacing color picture with a standard one
1:12:11 Generating gerber files for standard PCB
1:13:45 Generating BOM (Bill of material)
1:14:43 Generating Pick and Place file
1:15:47 Ordering our boards: PCB and Assembly
1:18:23 Ordering box
1:23:19 Finishing ordering
1:24:53 Ordering missing connector
1:26:02 Confirming placement and box manufacturing
1:27:51 Unpacking our boards
1:28:19 Unpacking the 3D printed boxes / enclosures
1:29:09 Inspecting the board, soldering down the missing connector
1:29:52 Measuring our board
1:30:34 Placing board inside of 3D printed box
1:31:05 Testing our board
1:32:11 Thank you very much for watching

[@RobertFeranec]

Color PCBs are now available at JLCPCB for everyone! Also, here is a link to the finished project: oshwlab.com/robertferanec/usb-c-power-supply

[@anilsuha5301]

sure, Thank you soo much🙂

[@EFazy]

Hi! First of all, thanks for the video! I'm looking after a schematic, with sourcable elements in the EU, which can act as a PoE end device (so it got 48V from the switch, and after that I can do with the 48V DC what I want, and also able to forward the network traffic with 1Gb/s without forwarding the 48V) which can be later used as a PSU for any, non PoE capable device, which stays below 17W (my Philips HUE bridge for example)... I don't know, that you have time/capacity/etc for this kind of project, but if you have would watch it, and maybe other home automation guys aswell (no, I'm not intrested in 100Mb/s dump injectors, the power must come from the PoE switch itself)

[@easyeda2164]

Thank you for sharing such fantastic project! 3.3 million engineers have chosen EasyEDA for 19.69 million designs so far. Let's make more extraordinary creations together!

[@JLC3DP]

Thanks for the tutorial, I'm sure more people will know about our one-stop 3D printing service now!😀

[@sXAPOLLls]

Sure, usually I order from JLCPCB boards + assembly. Now I want to make also enclosure for my projects. With box it looks like finish output from HW Engineer for SW development.

[@RobertFeranec]

I had a lot of fun working on this tutorial and I am very happy with the results.

[@movax20h]

This is fantastic tutorial. I use Kicad for years, but still enjoyed watching this. If I had only watched this video years ago, it would helped me so much. It basically has everything. Well prepared, scripted, executed, flawless. As usually with Rober's videos! This video, is going to be huge resource to so many people.

[@RobertFeranec]

thank you very much

[@ericjuve6885]

Thank you so very much for this tutorial. I was really struggling with parts placement and had no idea it was so easy to pick the part from the schematic for board placement. I intend to watch this more than once as there is so much cool detail. Aldo, i had no idea about the shell capability of EasyEDA. What a wonderful feature!!

[@voyars]

Great video, I've completed this video today and that's really helpful for beginners. Thank you for your clear english 🆒

[@romancharak3675]

That clear box is lovely.

[@andrewdecker9489]

Thank you! This was a very helpful introduction.

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you very much

[@Darieee]

fantastic work !! thanks a lot ♥ also - very cool that you always keep mentioning keyboard shortcuts and rename and beautify component names and orientations 🤘

[@_pixelpicnic]

Fantastic tutorial from start to finish. Much appreciated!

[@pkuula]

Thank you for amazing tutorial! Nice to see how these online manufacturing services are developing.

[@yarapolana]

This is so cool!! I always thought PCB printing was expensive gor some reason. Thank you for the tutorial please make more with easyeda.

[@electricalengineeringbymik3603]

Great Tutorial

[@EasyOne]

This is the best video I've watched in 2024 ❤👍

[@kido0505]

저는 한국사람입니다. 얼마전부터 관심있게 영상을 잘 보고 있습니다. 그동안 진도가 상당히 많이 나가고 있습니다. 모두가 @Robert Feranec 님 덕분입니다. 정말 감사합니다.

[@aware2action]

Nice overview of the 3d print ordering process, with all the needed details.❤️👍

[@weststarr2046]

AWESOME Robert...AWESOME, love the way you teach this kind if things. You the BEST on this area. Shout out from Spain. BLESSINGS 🌟💯!!!

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you very much for nice words.

[@sXAPOLLls]

Thank You especially for mech part. Didn't know I can do it so easily with easyeda! Hope I can load some of my Altium projects to make this mech!

[@BHSAHFAD]

Awesome video, Robert Feranec you are amazing!

[@anilsuha5301]

very good Robert. From almost 3 years i'm learning from you.

[@Jasmohan]

Enjoyed watching your video. Thank you 😊

[@anthonycalia1317]

Nice Job, Thanks!

[@saiautomations12]

HI Sir ROBERT I would like to thank you for THE video The tutorial was Amazing Just as you this is the love from INDIA

[@fofobadri]

شكرالكم 🎉🎉🎉

[@Jackie-sg8es]

Good work. A very premium looking product.

[@cvicracer]

What an awesome video I learned alot thank you

[@6935g]

Thank you for this video! It is time for me to switch to EasyEDA Pro.

[@user-xb5zu6zu7j]

Pozdrowienia z Polski. Dobra robota Robert!

[@user-zu8oh7dt9b]

Thanks for your help

[@HeinrichFrausing]

Good video, well done 👍 (now I just have to find a way to mount components on both sides. 😀

[@RobertFeranec]

thank you. just change its layer from top to bottom

[@amadouroufai2337]

Hi Robert. I appreciate a lot your tutorials specially this one.Please Robert, how can i add text on the 3d enclosure? Thank you

[@codures]

Maybe some fuse/0Ohms resistor and a tvs/esd would protect the PC USB Host.

[@haakonness]

Tips: With jlcpcb, if you are doing PCBA, they wil automatically move the order number to the assembly rails they add. So you don't need to pay extra to remove the order number, as it will be outside of your board :D

[@dogukansahil]

please make a video about pcb's with pictures

[@alejandroperez5368]

You ordered both the PCB and the 3D printed case from JLC, but ordered some connectors from Farnell. You could have used LCSC instead! If time is not a problem, I'd use the cheaper global direct line shipping method, which takes around 2 weeks or less to arrive to Europe and you get free shipping from LCSC when you have a PCB order from JLCPCB with that shipping method. By the way, that was a nice looking transparent case. Wish you had shown the enclosures a little closer to better see the quality!

[@RobertFeranec]

I didn't know they have free shipping. Is it the IOSS? I will try it next time!

[@alejandroperez5368]

@@RobertFeranec Yes, it is IOSS. I just choose Global Standard Direct Line for both the PCB and the Component orders. At LCSC checkout, they automatically detect you have an active PCB order available and they offer free shipping on the Global Direct Standard Line and the International Registered Mail shipping methods. As an additional note, I recently ordered from JLCPCB and LCSC, both orders are shipped and in transit now, and I'm still given the free shipping option from LCSC. Guess that means you can order multiple times from LCSC.

[@MrBelleblaas]

Great, great, great tutorial. One of the best. Thank you a lot 👍👍👍

[@vencislavvankov4897]

Thanks for the wonderful tutorial! You are a very good lecturer! I have the following question: I use Altium Designer and have many of my own libraries. Can they be used in EasyEda? Can they be converted?

[@RobertFeranec]

Thank you very much for watching. I have never tried that, so I don't know what are the options.

[@vencislavvankov4897]

@@RobertFeranec Thanks for the reply!

[@DolezalPetr]

Hello, what picture resolution is recommended for the best result when adding a colorful image to the PCB?

[@RobertFeranec]

according to their post: 1200 dpi ultra high resolution 6 Color UV Printer jlcpcb.com/blog/653-multi-color-silkscreen-pcb?from=mcss

[@codelectron]

What material did you use for your transparent 3d housing?. It looks cool.

[@RobertFeranec]

8001 resin jlc3dp.com/3d-printing-quote

[@htpkey]

Awesome tutorial! Is the main purpose of this PCB to serve as a LED light, with 2 options to power it?

[@RobertFeranec]

It's a simple +5V power supply generated from USB-C

[@htpkey]

@@RobertFeranec Thanks for the clarification!

[@etmax1]

When you place small SMT resistors you have to have the amount of copper each pad (near the pad) roughly with the same area (thermal heat sinking ability) otherwise when you reflow you get tomb stoning where the resistor/capacitor stands up on one end. That is why the default is spoking!!!

[@RobertFeranec]

I have not found the final answer on this topic. Often I use direct for SMT as often power pins are connected to polygons and I would like to keep the connection wide e.g. in this case USB-C power pins. I asked number of people about this and some say no problem, same say it may be problem .... but I never get complains from assembly house, so I don't really think much about it. I only use thermal relief on through hole pads connected to ground planes (especially to multiple ground planes) as these are soldered manually and if there would be for example 4 solid ground planes connected to a through hole GND pin it can be extremely hard to solder that pin. What's others people experience?

[@khaileng3020]

How come you ordered the pcb with no colors, but you can receive both the pcbs with no colors and colors? I didn't saw you do anything to the gerber that the pcb has the colors?

[@RobertFeranec]

Right now the color PCB ordering is not supported on the JLCPCB website outside of China (but they are planning to change this, so I included it in the video). I had to talk to JLCPCB directly to get the color PCBs.

[@RemiBusseuil]

Is there a way to add colour to silkscreen in Altium?

[@RobertFeranec]

Right now, I believe this what I used can only be done in EasyEDA and manufactured in JLCPCB China. But it is very new, I guess if people like it then JLCPB will probably try to push it more.

[@RemiBusseuil]

@@RobertFeranec So it is not some multi silk screen layer with each a colour of its own but a proprietary system

[@RobertFeranec]

@@RemiBusseuil no, it's something special, I don't know exactly how they do it.

[@arekx]

The same in KiCAD would be more interesting.

[@kash9309]

Where are you from?? Are you engineering??

[@LeandroSehnemHeck]

Who the fuck wants to design on browser?

[@thomasvnl]

​@@LeandroSehnemHeckif you use easyeda, than you as well

[@DragoSpiro98]

It's the same process, learn KiCAD

[@LeandroSehnemHeck]

DESIGN ON BROWSER, LOL

[@RobertFeranec]

EasyEDA has also an app