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OSHPark accepts Kicad board files directly?!?!

I'm working on a small filtering board to filter out high frequency noise from an RC servo power and signal. It's a simple 2-layer board with large traces and large (>= 0603) parts. That means it's within the capabilities of pretty much all online quick turn board fabs. Wrapped the design last night, time to order the first set of prototype boards. A few of my favorite quick turn board fabs are  jlcpcb and OSHPark . These will be hand assembled, otherwise I'd probably use jlcpcb as they'll assemble boards and have a ton of passives in their catalog of available parts. All of my ECAD work is done with KiCAD so you can imagine my surprise when I spotted this mention on the OSHPark site of " drag and drop your KiCAD files "?!?! Looking at their help page it turns out OSHPark will directly accept a KiCAD .kicad_pcb file, no pre-processing necessary. I'm not sure how long OSH has had this support, maybe its been a while and I just noticed it, but its a ...