I have kicad installed (from blastwave <http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php> Haven't used it much, unfortunately. I do a lot more software than hardware ...
Looking for a symbol/model... for the SI labs 4736 FM/AM/WB reciever chip. Just a little background. I have a somewhat complicated device I am trying to make...
I have found that a magnetic pad setting helps you route a trace and "magnetically" attache the trace to the off-grid pad. However, with many surface mount...
I agree with Dennevi. There should be a mechanical hole setting. As extraordinarily as KICAD has evolved, can't keep finding "ways around" to accomplish basic...
Hi, Even in the case we make a mechanical hole, the pcb make doesn't know which hole must not be plated, so I always tell him which are the unplated holes. ...
Hi again Your exactly right Pedro. The problem is that there's no good way of telling the pcb-maker. You can give him additional information in a comments...
Hi, this thread seems interesting, but... When do you realy need a hole *not* to be plated? Specialy it that will be an extra manufacturing cost (you may...
You might want an unplated hole when you need a hole to be of a better precision. For instance, my PCB manufactureres offer +/-0.1mm diameter tolerance for...
... AFAIK the hole gets plated if the copper mask covers it in whole or in part. Otherwise, not plated. This worked for me with several manufacturers,...
... Hi there, I have the same problem with the hotkeys. After installing KiCad and defining a hotkey file (for PCBnew) I placed the line shortcut "Ctrl U":...
... I have to make an addition. I looked closer to the hotkey-list and found that "Ctrl U" was already used by "Switch Units". So I changes my "Save Board...
... I would like some help to write a Kicad language-plugin for Gnucap. Actually, I think two are needed, one for schematic and one for layout. Doing this...
I have created a simple test circuit in kicad and created the netlist. In PCBnew, general options I have set the layer to 1. I have manually routed and all...
I tried the same with the same results some time ago, so there could be an issue with KiCad reading the new/edited file. But the much more important thing to...
Is Gnucap still actively developed? It looks like the last release was several years ago. Does Gnucap run on Windows XP? Thanks, David My email address has...
... Yes I am aware. But I'm running debian (and I'm quite a noob using it) so I don't know how to create a suitable deb package for the newest kicad..(I'm...
Hi, I'm new to KiCad (in fact I have no previous experience creating footprints or schematics of circuits...). I'm running an old version of KiCad (2007),...
I use the CentOS version from the kicad site on SUSE, it's a binary and as such does not have any dependencies to worry about. The install is just a matter of...
Hey Andy, Thanks for the swift reply. Unfortunately, everything you told me I already knew. I have my pwr_flags connected properly and the "hidden" pins option...
I personally would like to see kicad merge with qucs . Qucs is a very easy to use simulator that is quite powerful. -- Conn O. Clark Observation: In formal...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Hmmm... this seems yummy. Didn't know about it. Too bad it's in Qt so it would be messy to integrate with Kicad. Maybe it's time to think...
... It might be worth talking to the qucs developers. They have integration of a PCB layout editor on their road map. http://qucs.sourceforge.net/road.html ...
... While appreciating the problems involved integrating the two pieces of software, it could be useful, at least in theory, to have some integration with...
Oh! is that all, just shove some 1pin connectors on the cct and connect that to the power net, you can then place the connector on the PCB wherever you want...
... I'm failing at this...the pins only appear in the lib editor and I honestly don't know what cct means :-(. When you say "connect that to the power" do you...
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