Intergrating Arduino Nano Board into PCB design

[ericinthecircle]

Greetings, I'm excited to learn PCB design in fusion and it came at a great time because I want to design my first PCB board this year.  The board is going to be based around an Arduino Nano, so it will be a board that I will solder a Nano to along with other components.  I am very new to electrical design. (been using f360 for a few years) My question is how do I bring a nano into fusion 360 to base the rest of the board off of it.  I found someone that created this Arduino micro/nano library Github here.  is there a way to bring in this eagle library? or do I need to create the Arduino board from scratch within fusion? which could be fun, and a good learning experience,  if not just time-consuming. Any thoughts or advice to get me pointed in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -Eric

[jorge_garcia · Accepted solution]

Hi @ericinthecircle,

I hope you're having a great day. This library would work well. Element14 has a similar library that contains more Arduino variants.

If your design is built around a nano, there's no reason to recreate the full nano. All you really have to have to use the part is have the pads on the PCB and that's what the library allows you to do.

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

[ericinthecircle]

Thanks for your response, I have figured out how to bring that library into fusion which gives me the pads, which as you say is really what I need.  It would be sweet for it to show it in 3d, but not really necessary.  Thanks for your response, I will check out element14.

[RichardHammerl]

Hi there,

to summarise this thread I'ld like to give some final information.

There are a number of EAGLE schematics available on the community pages of element14.com and there are also some libraries with components.  Follow this link, for example. 

All EAGLE schematics and libraries can be used easily in Fusion Electronics. 

For a how to, please check out my little Face the Future with Fusion Electronics video series on youtube.
We will see more there soon.... 🙂

The library files probably do not have 3D packages linked. This could be done in Fusion directly. Insert, for example, Step-Models into the library or use Fusion's Package Generator. Once saved, you could use this library to create your own Arduino project. 

Hope this solves your questions.

Regards,