I've been using Kicad in my work for the last year, and I find that my copy of Protel gets less and less use! One aspect of Kicad which could be usefully...
Hi, I wrote a good sized application for a start up on Colorado, they do proto type assembly and this app is used to manage BOM info and feed pick and place...
Hi all, I have just recently started using Kicad. My problem is basic, when I go to save a file I get the error message: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8'...
I was wondering how to import/create a logo in top-side copper? A module without pads would be done on the silkscreen.. I want it as a zone I guess. Anyone...
... Paul, I think a module might be the way to go here, for you and me. You can set the layers you add the drawn elements on. I don't see a way to get a...
... I'm still pretty new here, how would you bring an SVG image in. I can just about create any format possible with all my computer tools. Delineate looks...
I'm considering moving over to a linux machine, what flavor seems to work best? Red Hat? Debian? Other? What x-window manager? KDE? gnome? Other TIA for your...
... Someone will need to write a tool to do it, to take the draw commands in SVG and morph them into the kicad format (with proper scaling). I can throw...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Hi. First of all, congratulations on your change :) Linux has a lot of different flavors (distros) that can suit any taste. I would suggest...
... Kicad is fairly distro and desktop agnostic. It uses WxWidgets for its GUI which are desktop independent but you do need to ensure your distro has the...
Ya know, worst case, you could print-out your image on tracing paper then tape it to your monitor. Follow the traces behind the paper with the mouse in module...
... Have a look in this groups file section. There is a application called TTconv that can translate dxf and other formats into board outline. I'm not sure...
... Actually what I just did is create the symbol (ESD) in my CAD program (Pro-engineer). Then I dimensioned all the end points of lines, printed it out then...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Currently I do, as a MacOS X instalation as well, because of the nature of the project I'm working on which has to be tested on several ...
... Looks great. I like the way you used many lines to create a fill. Too bad there are no filled shapes in the format (single layer pad shape minus a drill...
... Is there anyway you or the author could package that as a stand-alone exe for us dumb people that know nothing about python? Case in point: C:\Program...
... Whoops, never mind.. It's called PIL: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ -- "If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less ...
... Thank you Devid, that would help others to use your utility. I got your program working with great success. It converted my image very accurately. I'm a...
... It would be great to have an auto fill, using a bunch of dots (periods) overlaping. To fill the shapes with the arcs I had to edit the mod file manually...
... This heavily depends on what you need. Starting with either kde or grome is fine. If you want to have a look at different window managers (which also mean ...
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