[SOLVED] Tools to have my company logo on PCB

[Melkior]

Hi everybody

I wish to add my company logo on my pcb designs.
How can do that?

Melkior

 

[pwdixon]

You can usually add a logo/graphic to the pcb design in the pcb layout package on whatever layer you want it on. You could also ask you pcb manufacturer to add the graphic to the gerber data pre-production but then you have less control of where it's placed on the pcb.

 

[Melkior]

My company logo is so complex. It's a coloured picture.
I cannot draw it in a package. Too hard for me.
Is any software exist to do that?

 

[pwdixon]

You could split the colours across the pcb layers but realistically you can only really represent three colours, most graphics are on the silkscreen layer and so they are really only "black and white" so you can't do a coloured picture. The level of detail is down to the precision of the pcb manufacturer but dont forget silkscreen ink always blurs to some extent, more precis graphics can be drawn in copper but then that won't show up as well as the silkscreen on the pcb due to the solder resist layer.

 

[tpetar]

Today you can do anything, only question is price. On finalised PCB you can print anything on it with standard way in pressroom. Today you have inkjet printers which can print direct on solid surface just as PCB. Also thise printers are used for manufacturing PCBs on fast and easy way. In some other hand you can look for solution with company logo sticker glued to PCB surface.

 

[NIKHILRAJ]

logo is normaly printed in silkscreen(legend) or in copper. Normal procedure is
* Convert your logo into DXF ( most of the PCB design software supports DXF import)

* import it in to PCB tool in the desired layer
* generate gerber

 

[Mattylad]

What PCB package are you using?

 

[Melkior]

What PCB package are you using?

Hi,
PADS-Layout
Thanks

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Searching the Web I found bmp2asc.exe
But it works on ... DOS in command line, Wow!!!
And I cannot have any file with it.

I wish have a tool running with Windows.

 

[T5400]

Hi

one of program that work good for convert bitmap to gerber or DXF was excelcam

https://www.reliant-eds.com/PCB_Design/excelcam.html

demo work for convert mono bitmap to DXF and GERBER

for convert bitmap to solid monocrome you use painbrush "paint can"
for change color to black , you may generate 1 DXF for each color then combine it back
but once in pcb silk was monocrome anway ..

one converted import it into your cad ,
then in pads if my memory was good you may save pcb in ascii (.asc)
and convert it back into a part ,but i not use pads myself so i not knot exact procedure

 

[Melkior]

Hi

one of program that work good for convert bitmap to gerber or DXF was excelcam

http://www.reliant-eds.com/PCB_Design/excelcam.html

demo work for convert mono bitmap to DXF and GERBER

for convert bitmap to solid monocrome you use painbrush "paint can"
for change color to black , you may generate 1 DXF for each color then combine it back
but once in pcb silk was monocrome anway ..

one converted import it into your cad ,
then in pads if my memory was good you may save pcb in ascii (.asc)
and convert it back into a part ,but i not use pads myself so i not knot exact procedure

Thanks TS5400

Still searching the Internet I found Image in Design.
This software has a black and white filter included and can export picture in PADS layout native format. :-D
It sounds like good.
**broken link removed**
No eval version but the price is small (low risk).

Any other suggestion guys?

 

[backdrill]

For PADS,

I would suggest converting the image into monochrome then convert it to a DXF file that is compatible to PADS.
Import the image (DXF format) in PADS and that should solve the problem.

It would be very interesting to see colored images/logos printed as silkcreens on a PCB!

 

[Melkior]

Hi everybody

I wish to add my company logo on my pcb designs.
How can do that?

Melkior

I bought the Image in Design software.
29.90 dollars is not too expensive.
There is a converter of the color image in one tone.
I got my logo in PADS.
It works well.

 

[Melkior]

Hi All,
I updated my copy of the latest version of Image in Design 2015. What decided me was the pixel editor. This feature is really handy. I transformed a complex logo in black and white then I removed a few pixels mistranslated. The result is perfect. This program has progressed well.
Melkior

The link:
**broken link removed**

 

[Melkior]

Hi All
I use Image in Design to add the company logo of my customers in PADS Layout. It works fine.
But today I need a tooll to add them in the Eagle format.
Any idea?
Thx