Onyx12 - MacroPad

I managed to set up autorouting and got it to route all of the components except for 9 of the connections, so I did those manually. I then added 3D footprints to all of the components so I could render the nice 3D model you can see below. After that I began working on the 3D model for the case, however after making the base of it and extruding the walls up, I made the plate using the plate generator website, but once I imported it I wasn’t sure how to do the extrusion step they do in the tutorial on it, let me know if you know how to do that.

I made the PCB layout and I now have to do the routing between all of the components, but I am going to try and install an autorouting plugin to do that for me.

Made the schematic for my 3x4 button macropad and added led’s to go under the switches as well as a rotary encoder. I was planning on doing a 4x4 macropad with oled and rotary encoder but the MCU doesn’t have enough pins for that so I decided to go with 3x4 + rotary encoder + LEDs. I also assigned the footprints for the PCB but I haven’t started laying out the PCB yet. I am not sure where to place the diodes or LED’s so if you know please let me know in the comments (I want one LED under each switch and need the diodes for the matrix layout).

Made the pcb in kicad for the tutorial 3 key macropad and also made the case in fusion 360, but I must have done one of the dimensions wrong as the cutout doesn’t line up with the case size, so I will have to restart that next time I work on it. I am also planning on making a 3x3 or 4x4 macropad but I want to do the tutorial first to get a feel for working in kicad and fusion before I do a more complex version.