So far my kicad experience has been great. I've got my first board almost finished and now its time to move the arrange the reference designators for my...
High together, I'm new to kicad and started with a first schematic. Next step I used cvpcb to select the needed footprints of the parts (I exportet lib and mod...
Make sure you run DRC on the circuit diagram before you run cvpcb That will highlight any errors there. I would think that it is very likely that the libs you...
I would like to import a logo into my PCB designs, but don't see how this is possible. If anyone can tell me otherwise I would be very happy. Regards Andreas...
Hi all, I've been asked to shrink the size of the solder paste windows relative to the pads by 0.04mm, ie if a pad is a 1mm diameter circle, I've been asked to...
... In the board editor, select the menu Dimensions | Tracks and Vias. From that dialog, you can set the global mask clearance. A negative clearance does seem...
Thanks. I should add that they want the solder mask to be positive (ie the solder mask clearance is supposed to be 0.4mm), so your cunning idea can't be...
Dear KiCAD group, I just found an ATXMega library for Eagle which I would like to use on my KiCAD Project. Is it possible to convert the library to KiCAD? ...
Hi, mostly I redraw ALL my libraries and modules, but using some existing library. It is so easy that I turned it into a habit... There are a lot of Eagle...
... [sound of planting face in hand] D'oh! Yes, I was thinking solder masks and not the paste tool. Well, one sure way to do this is to edit the *SoldP_Cmp.pho...
Hmmm - that would be a lot of manual editing. OK, thanks. At least I can now solve it with a bit of C code if they insist on this one. Regards, Robert....
... High Andy! thanks for your reply. I'm working now on the ERC error list. As far as I see the pads do have different names in the library element and the...
... Give this a try (I hope the Y! formatting doesn't totally destroy it.) May need to be tweaked for your house Gerber style. #!/usr/bin/perl # # Usage: perl...
Hi there, I had exactly the same issue - and unfortunately no solution to you. In my opinion, Kicad needs plenty more shortcuts, a dedicatd one for "move...
Hi Robert, Interesting manufacturer you've got there. No, Kicad does not have the ability to shrink the solder past pads as it can increase pad sizes on solder...
Oh wow! Did you do this specially? If so I'm really touched - thank you. I'll take a look at this today. Being a C(++) programmer I was thinking about...
In very rare cases the zone filling algorithm fails in zone calculations. This is due to a non fixed bug in the kbool library (that is a great library do to...
... It was a new one to me. The reasoning is that it reduces the risk of solder shorting across adjacent pads of fine pitch components, a problem which...
Hi, As many of you, I'm a beginner to KiCad. But I know it for a couple of years, especially EESchema that I used to draw schematics before transferring them...
From the plot menu, if you select postscript as the output format you can select a small drill point on the pads rather than the real drill size. Not a X as...
Hi Jean Pierre, I also found a problem in the new version with Zone fill: I needed a pad to be round on one side and right-angled on the other side. To do...
There is an automatic way that is just fine: Menu > Post-process > Create drill diagram (2nd opt) > Drill diagram (top center), I use Postcript. It will...
I was thinking of using awk (tawk) for this. It can be done in a few lines (5 to 10 maybe) of awk code. Awk is included on unix/linux and available for...
Hi. 1. when i created the gerber files i noticed that the size of the solder paste is bigger then the pad itself, this can cause to mutch tin on the pad, is...
I ran aztz4's Perl script under cygwin, and it seemed to work a treat. I'm just waiting to hear back from the manufacturer that they got what they were...
Hi jacobeluz1, The size of the solder paste apertures is currently under discussion in another thread on the list, specifically how to reduce the size of the ...
... High, again me! I did follow Andy's advice and followed 3 times the tutorial, with good results. I'm feeling more familiar now with Kicad. But.... Now I...
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:37:56 -0000 ... That is a very odd effect... If you have not already done so compare the eagle footprint with the kicad footprint. You...
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