Yes, I know and I do that. With a very special care when making backups and clean up at the end of the project. (and I did lose them sometimes) But PCBnew is...
Well, I took another closer look at this. And I found what it was actually complaining about. It was referring to the 4 mounting holes I put on the pcb. I have...
Hello Ivica. ... Because i am personally not interested at 3D models. So i create only footprints an let the 3D work for someone, who has the know how. ... Ok,...
... Hello Dan, Here is an illustration of why it is a good idea to put everything in the schematic. This should include mounting holes, fiducials and...
Hello guys, one of my workers had the idea of using small (like 0.5" x 0.5" / 1cm x 1cm) open copper ground planes on the edges of our boards for setting...
My solution is to design the ground point in when designing the board. I place a GND pad with through-hole in a reasonable location. When needed, solder a loop...
... Hi, If you have some spare time ;-) and want to make a 3d model : I would like to have one of a microswitch (Farnell number 1735367). I made the module and...
... I was feeling creative this morning so I took a swing at this. It's in a new folder in the Files area for general 3D models. The center of the common pin,...
... Dan, If this is happening in yesterday's build, then I can help you. If you are not using a build less than a month old, then I suggest using Adam Wolf's...
... Hi, Almost perfect ! Now I have to search for the threads about opening the wrl-file in a CAD-package to design my case around the board. I tried importing...
Hi all, I'm an old ham, but relatively new to PCB design! I'm struggling with the schematic for a SDR receiver, and I found some difficulties with the power...
There are a few things to learn about Kicad (as with any program) Kicad uses libs for circuit symbols, and modules for the footprints. Both are forms of...
Thanks for the answer and explanations Andy, this is more or less what I was figuring out. Problem is that 10 components have 10 designation for pwr/gnd (I'm...
... Try the free utility "meshconv"; by Patrick Min over at http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~min/meshconv/. Just for a quick check, I was able to take the VRML...
... I did, the code looks fine. I'm not an expert programmer, ... You did, into a worthless realm. Open your board with a text editor. If you do not find the...
Hi I would like to know if it could be possible to imagine a future version of Kicad able to deliver a 1 :1 negative printer output. Most of the photoresist...
what I have already done for this purpose is to print in SVG and then use Inkscape do generate the negative image. I could not find where I put my notes, but...
Merci Alain That's more or less what I'm doing now (with Inscape and a negative overlay function). But I would have preferred a kind of "integrated" solution....
... As I mentioned in my original reply, the first paragraph describes how I resolved the problem. I also had stated that I double checked the schematics for...
I'm not quite sure what happened to my post on this, so apologies if this ends up as a double post, blame it on yahoo :-)) Use the PLOT output and select...
I look forward to trying your solution, Robert. Many thanks, Donald. -- *Plain Text* email -- it's an accessibility issue () no proprietary attachments; no...
I thought I'd also try asking here besides on the Freerouting.net forum. Their forum doesn't appear to be too active. Is there a way to pause the Freerouting...
... Dan, When Freerouter is running, Left-click stops the router (says in the status line at the bottom) and retains the routes. You can then export the .SES...
I have several module footprints that I have either created from scratch or modified an existing module. I gave them names and did a save to a new library. I...
... ah, ok. I wasn't entirely sure about that message. It says "stop" which usually implies the operation is over and won't continue, but rather start from the...
... In the module editor, you have to select to active library first. In pcbnew they should appear, I'm not sure how I can help. ... From the top, that is, the...
