What's the correct way to capitalize kicad? Kicad? KiCad? KiCAD? I've also been wondering what kicad stands for? I assume the CAD stands for Computer Aided...
Hi all, I am making a new eeschema project which needs some blocks of a revious project. I have seen I cannot do cpy-paste from the fisrt project. Any ideas to...
... Hola Pedro, if you only have to take blocks from one project (one sheet eschema), copy the file and rename it out of kicad. Then, when you are in Eeschema...
Hi Pedro! Open your previus schema, select the block to copy and in pop-up menu (right click), chose delete block, Dont' save your old schema!!!! With same...
I have uploaded the first release candidate of kicad sources with unicode support This version can be conpiled with or without unicode support and is not fully...
Hi, I will like to know if there is any way to customize the EESCHEMA abd PCBNEW design page frame. I will like to create a new Page frame. Specially I will...
... Hi. I just tested on Madriva 2006 and I had to make a few changes. I changed the minimum wxGTK-devel to 2.6.1 and had to build with rpmbuild -bb. rpmguild...
... The --rebuild option only works for SRPMs and the -bb option only works for spec files. Since you had to modify the spec file, it makes sense the you...
I was wondering if anyone has runj into these "quirks": 1. When I set and save print parameters (page size, etc), it seems to revert to a default (16" x ?) 2....
G'Day all! Just a few comments on routing now that I have a significant bit of experience doing fairly dense routing with KiCAD. Please don't take this as...
... <clip> Sorry, I should have proof-read this better before I pressed the "send" button. It should read (mistyping highlighter with '*'): 3) If there is a...
Hi. I have been trying to create a 3D model of a simple RF transistor. I used Wings 3D as recommended but it seems to be more of an arty, intuitive kind of...
... I'm trying to figure out the best way to go about this too. ... I noticed recently that Blender (http://www.blender3d.org/) can save in both WRL and WINGS...
Hi Bryan, Yes, you are right. Kicad doesn't like Blender VRML 2 files. I did try exporting to Wings then exporting VRML 2 from Wings and it did work that way...
In a completely unrelated note but still inspired by the 3D modelling thread, i want to share an experience and an impression about hobbyist prototyping, and ...
I am having trouble with labels between sheets - cant seem to get them to work on the PCB. Anything with a global label ends up on the same net. I cant see the...
I just tried to route a simple surface mount board. Surface mount component pads are sometimes on metric, sometimes imperial grids so no single grid setting is...
Hello together... I'm searching for a possibility to use 3rd party libraries with kicad. As far as I understand the "exp-kicad-lib.ulp" converts only the ...
... I use KiCAD from 27.10.2005 When make the drill file, layer is mirrored and shifted to up. I solve this problem manually. Insert before digits Y-axis...
I have uploaded the second release candidate of kicad unicode version.(sources and distribution) Some bugs are fixed, and some enhancements are added (font...
