I think I'm right in saying that PCBNew is soon going to support Net Classes. For one of our projects there was an urgent need to produce boards with various...
... I'd agree with that wholeheartedly. Although like much Open Source SW, QUCS is a work in progress, it's already more versatile than most variants of SPICE....
... Hi, The only problem with merging kicad and QUCS is that the latter is written in QT but the former uses Wxwidgets libraries. If Kicad could be ported to...
... IMHO, this would be the wrong way to go. Imagine if in order to use FreeRoute, all kicad would have had to be ported to Java :( NO. The simple and...
... Step 1: How are you defining a circle using the "edges pcb" layer? I assume you had to enter 4 quarter circle arcs? Or other? If arcs, make sure they...
I am interested in using kicad to make a Xilinx FPGA PCI board but I installed the Xilinx software to ubuntu and do not know the command or the whereis to...
I was trying to discuss a possible way to output a netlist into QUCS I wasn't shure what one I reply to to send it to the people who were discussing that sorry...
I installed Xilinx on Fedora 10 and it installed in my home directory as Xilinx101 subdirectory (Xilinx ver 10.1). That directory contains ISE directory which...
I was waiting for my own repost to the list to answer so that it would not get lost, I just didn't see the message. Qucs files is detailed in it's own help...
Hi Everyone, We use an LPKF engraving machine to make solder stencils out of thin circuit board material and so we need a Gerber file with footprint pads that...
... Hi Rob, I don't think you can at the moment. We send the paste layers to a laser cutting company who then do the pad reductions for us. Generally the...
Hi Brian, et. al., Do you know if Kicad uses only apertures or does it also draw pads? The reason I ask, is that it would be easy to change the apertures, but ...
If it is of any interest mega UK have resist coated brass sheet, which was specifically requested by a few people on another conferencing system I use,...
Hi Rob, Didn't stumble across it when I was filing a bug last time. But I am not sure whether it is my lack of undrestanding or actually a bug. However, you...
For some reason, I cant get filled zones to show on my board in the 3D viewer. Any reasons why? They dont even show as filled zones in PCBNEW, which seems odd,...
Ok. I had this problem before but after searching the messages for a possible solution I thought I had found it, but to no avail. Everytime I create a zone and...
What would be great would be a repeat last function hot key. That way, be it rotate attribute or delete segment or what ever, you would select it the first...
The home page says: Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Where are the FAQ's, search reveals more questions about...
Well, there is an faq in the file list of this group. Log into the group using the yahoo web interface and you will find them. There are also copies of the...
Hi, I would like to share with you the Skypic board: http://fotos.iearobotics.com/index.php?album=skypic-2009&image=Skypic-2009-2.jpg It is a rather an old...
Hi I'm a fairly experienced pcb designer but am new to kicad and have been struggling to create parts with the library editor. I want to use parts from...
Hi! I had (have) a similar problem, that I just now solved. Pretty new to kicad btw, but hope this helps. Juan's answer and a bit of luck (or a streak of...
Here are the steps I follow: 1. Open the library editor. 2. Select the desired library 3. If editing a part, select the desired part number 4. Open (or create)...
Hello ... I had the same problem at the beginning, when i started to write my own library. So i wrote a manual about editing symbols (i did not yet something...
Bernd has done a very nice job on this manual. There are some issues with different terminology in the various language versions. For the life of me, I cannot...
Thank you for everyones advice. It merely confirmed I wasn't doing anything wrong. For some reason the fields tab was missing from the options menu. I...
Hello Richard. ... I am looking now at the Windows Version Build 20090216-RC6. Of course, its behavior is different from the earlier version i described at my...
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