How to Export Gerber Files from EasyEDA
By INDiPCB ·
EasyEDA makes this easier than most tools — it hands you a finished ZIP rather than a folder you have to assemble. That convenience hides a few things worth understanding, particularly if you are sending the board somewhere other than the fabricator the tool is built around.
Where the export lives
In EasyEDA Standard, use File → Generate PCB Fabrication File (Gerber), or the Fabrication menu → PCB Fabrication File (Gerber).
In EasyEDA Pro, use File → Export → PCB Fabrication File (Gerber), or the Gerber export button on the toolbar.
Either way you get a ZIP containing RS-274X Gerbers and an Excellon drill file — the same industry-standard formats any fabricator can read. It is not a proprietary package, despite the tool being tied to one manufacturer by default.
One-click versus custom
The one-click export uses defaults and produces a standard layer set quickly. For an ordinary two-layer board it is genuinely fine, and it is what most people should use.
The custom route lets you choose layers, coordinate precision, file naming and whether drill information is written as a separate file. Reach for it when you have a reason — an unusual stackup, or a fabricator who has asked for something specific — not by default.
Deal with the flying wires first
EasyEDA checks for unrouted connections before it exports and warns you about them. It will let you continue and ignore them.
Do not. A flying wire is a connection you drew in the schematic and never routed on the board — the export will succeed, the boards will be manufactured exactly as drawn, and the connection will simply not exist in copper. This is one of the few warnings in the whole toolchain that reliably predicts a dead board, and it is dismissed constantly.
What should be in the ZIP
Open it and check. For a two-layer board you are looking for:
- Top and bottom copper.
- Top and bottom soldermask.
- Top and bottom silkscreen.
- A board outline layer.
- At least one drill file.
If the outline is missing, your board has no defined shape and any automatic quote will be based on the extent of your copper instead — which is always smaller than the real board. If the drill file is missing, you have described a board with no holes.
Do not rename anything
The file names carry the layer meaning. Renaming them, or helpfully tidying the ZIP, is a reliable way to have a copper layer read as silkscreen — and the result is not an error, it is a wrong board that looks plausible.
For the same reason, send the whole ZIP rather than picking out the files you think matter. Partial sets do not fail loudly.
Check it in a viewer
Whatever tool drew the board, look at the exported files before sending them. A Gerber viewer shows you what a fabricator receives, not what your layout tool intends, and the two differ more often than people expect.
Uploading the ZIP on our order page does this for you: the board is rendered from the actual files, measured, and checked, and you see dimensions and a price within seconds. If a layer is missing you will be told which one.