Not only is this a great tutorial video on KiCad, but an example of how a tutorial video should be made. Unobtrusive background music, good pacing, professional looking edits, and an enthusiastic and clear narration. A cracking experience all'round!
philips cfl ki pcb aur kisi local cfl ki pcb me difference hota hai ? kya philips cfl ki pcb hum ghar pe design kar sakte hai uske liye kya kya chahiye ????
+Simon Ellwood You're perfectly correct. I made a mistake in editing the video, thanks for pointing that out! Also, the relationship between the netlist and footprint association file (.cmp) was not obvious to me when I started with KiCad; always learning. :D
KiCad is the way to go. This from a guy who gets to use the latest OrCAD. KiCad is amazing... it doesn't have the engineering tool suite of a $10,000 a year program like OrCAD, but it is a dream to use.
Uwe, that's awesome! It really feels good to know that I can contribute to the KiCad community and help others. I'm still learning a lot about KiCad and Electronics in general. Thanks for the comment!
Great pacing. Most tutorials force me to tap the right key to speed up the pace but you were really concise and fast. I hope you do more of these in the future, there needs to be more fast paced tutorials out there.
Thanks, I really appreciate the positive comments here! I don't have any other ideas for tutorials. KiCad is approaching a new stable release, so maybe an update to this video is due soon.
Just have to say that this was the BEST TUTORIAL VIDEO I've ever watched. I was a bit daunted by the multiple-part, multiple hour long Kicad videos others had and thought it would be super hard to learn. Your video zips right through things and was the perfect thing to help me design my first PCB! THANK YOU!!!!
Allow me to introduce you to the HackRF and the DuetWifi. Both of these boards were completely designed in KiCad, and the project files are provided under an open source license. greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/ github.com/mossmann/hackrf/ www.duet3d.com/ github.com/T3P3/Duet
For a couple of years now I realised I needed to move to a better pcb package as I am struggling with the smaller components (Im using BM2). Dreaded this move (as I know BM so well I do it in my sleep) but always figured Kicad would be a good option to go to. Holy s**t in a few hours Im converted. Only a couple things I find difficult. Can track widths be changed on the fly? I do plenty rf stuff and need to change often, sometimes even 6 or 7 times in one track as I go under various components. Secondly when I flip TH components to the other side the pads move to a different location and don't line up with the pins. Is this a bug? Thanks again.
That was really helpful - a quick breeze through before there's a risk of getting bogged down and overwhelmed in the detail of the learning process. Thank you.
Really great video......just what i needed to speed learn Kicad basics. V6 is just out......be great if you could do same again for that new version.......i'm not sure how different it is now.
The best tutorial ever! Instead of skipping forward all the time, I keep skipping backward and re-watching to see what I missed. Also great in that this is excellent for people who are already using other packages (I used ultiboard, protel, eagle and altium) and I was just looking for an introduction how to create a board outline, route, change track width and some more. These 20+ minutes saved me a lot of clicking around. Thanks!
Tip I got from another video: You can have the software automatically place the tracks for you to avoid having to do it by hand. I found it a bit tedious when I was doing it myself. The button is "Mode track: autorouting". It is at the top under the drop down menus, 3rd from the left on my version; click it and it should stay lit. Make sure you the mouse cursor is on (not on the add tracks and vias button). Right click on your PCB screen and select Autoroute > Automatically Route all Footprints
+Beso Undilashvili Thanks! The background color used for the editing area of the schematic capture and PCB layout tools can be set in the preferences dialog within EESchema and PCBnew. The dark user interface (window borders, icons, menus) is a GTK theme; you'll need to be running Linux and set the theme in your system control panel. The details will depend on which distribution you're running. I don't know if this is possible in Windows or OSX, sorry.
think you very much...very good tutorial..quick and concentrated...you have a talent to do good tutorials...please add some more..detailed ones from beginning to finish...it will be the best..
Dude this was the best youtube tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you! I love that you don't waste any time or talk slow so I have to skip around to the useful parts.
I would like to thank you and all who participated in the creation of KICAD. I`m a 50 year old hobbyist that simply doesn`t have thousand of dollars to get started. I`ve used EAGLE and its ok but, I`ve been nickel and dimed to death. To get 100 X 160 mm board. I`ll give my 200 American dollar to to CERN. THANKS AGAIN.
Hmm, found your video from a good review at the KiCAD Yahoo user's group: groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kicad-users/info Looks like good feedback, will watch...
It would have been better if a basic circuit was produce. E.G. LED, POWER, OPEN SWITCH AND RESISTOR. This is a simple thing I want to do to get started. I want the open switch, but the file was not automatically loaded and now I am having problems finding and loading this item.
Good video, quick and clear. I would have liked to see some edits of on lower layer and usinf vias, but I think I can explor and figure it out. Thanks.
Thank you for the video. My understanding is that the software should perform automatic track routing. I am not familiar with the KiCAD software, so I created my schematics using online free software EasyEDA. This EasyEDA would not allow me to see the actual tracks. I would like to see the actual copper traces on the PCB for each layer. Question - would I be able to load the Gerber files created in this EasyEDA into the KiCAD and see the actual copper traces? Also, can I import my schematics diagram from the EasyEDA into the KiCAD software? Thank you!
Tragically bad; irritating and totally un-necessary background music, much jumping around, and also: for an intro: you couldn't e.g. just pull a couple BJTs and caps and r's out of the library, to show us a multivibrator? Weird, that you felt the need to design your own part. If even the Intro needs a "build it from scratch", we should definitely not be looking at KiCAD.
Hahaha, so many years after first watching this video, so much electronics I've done since, yet this is still what I recommend to people wanting to learn KiCAD :-) really excellent tutorial!
This is a very much appreciated tutorial and I appreciate it. Should you make another ..., this was really too fast for me as I couldn't watch what you were doing and find the button/icon/etc on my screen. Maybe just instead of saying "do this" or "click that" say the word or button name. Just really so fast I had to stop, rewind, and repeat like 20 times in the first 5 mins. Really appreciate the tutorial though - thanks.
For anyone looking for a more in-depth full series, try Digi-Key's tutorial ruclips.net/video/vaCVh2SAZY4/видео.html (not sponsored or anything, just thought it was a good, more in-depth KiCad tutorial that more people should see! you don't have to use Digi-Key. I like getting parts from AliExpress)
This is awesome. Just proves you can do all the work on open software like this. I am on Linux full-time for more then 6 month now. No Windows partitions. Programming robotics and IoT. Linux has all the tools and they work amazing.
Nice to be what can be done with KiCAD. A little fast for me as a newbie, but I can watch it multiple times and pick out what I need. Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith Noneya
Thanks for the great tutorial! At 12:20 what are filled zones? i guess what are power and ground planes... sorry, this is my first PCB ever! do i need filled zones? my board is low voltage/power. thanks.
javier v. Power & ground planes are a common use for zones, but you can assign the zone to any defined net/signal. You might want to do some research on your own to decide if you need to use filled zones a.k.a copper pours for your PCB. Even if you have a low power design, filled zones can be used for heat-sinking, easy current return on a ground plane, or they may be required if you need to deal with EMI regulations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_pour Good luck!
Good tutorial, just please - don't drink that much coffee - you move the mouse like you have ADHD, it's all over the place before it reaches the target.
I spent 5mins with Autodesk Eagle and then deleted it, glad I did because KiCad is awesome ! Need to understand more about what you did with the vias and the design rules relating to ground planes.
I drew a schematic and then made the printed circuit board layout in Kicad. Then I modified and added more parts to the schematic. How do I now add these to the printed circuit board layout? Thanks in advance.
I dont understand this: after you added all the named pins you draw a box indicating the plastic package TSSOP20 but you do not specify any width and length for the box - so the STM´s footprint will very likely be too big or too small how can I specify that the box should be 4.5 mm wide and 6.5 mm long BEFORE I add it to the Elements Library ?
Hi Gerald, In this tutorial I am only showing the creation of schematic symbols, not the associated PCB footprint. The symbols have no bearing on the footprint. In this video I show how to link the symbol with a footprint from KiCad's standard library of footprints using CvPCB. To be clear, you don't use the schematic symbol editor (EESchema) to specify the physical size of the component; you'd use the PCB footprint editor for that. I wanted to limit the length of this video, so I decided to omit the creation of a footprint, since many new electronic components on the market use footprints that are already defined in the standard library, making symbol creation the more critical operation here. I hope that helps you!
Pretty late, but this is such a great tutorial that's helped me break my procrastination on learning KiCAD/PCB design. Just been following each step on my own comp. What is the RP component? Is it just a resistor package? Was it a custom component or from KiCAD's in-built library?
Jackie Lui hi, yep you can find both resistor networks and resistor packs (discrete resistors in a single package) in the standard KiCad symbol library.
thanks for your video, but it is not actually in 2021 year yet. i think so? because KiCad have already had another better interface and features. especially nightly releases....
This is great - I only actually need to make one PCB, I'll probably never use this software again, so I might well download this and just copy the steps! LOL :D Cheers man!
You may only need one PCB now, but soon you'll be overcome with an intense, inexplicable desire to design more circuits and have them fabricated. I'm sorry; it's just too late to save you. KiCad has become your downfall. :D
Thank you very much for this. We needed a small board for an Arduino Pro Mini LoRaWAN node and with your video I was able to build a board. I will try cutting it on an Other Mill tonight. Thanks again for the quick and precise walk-thru.
+saumya gupta Sorry for the late reply. If you have this problem using your own design, you can try loading one of the example files distributed with KiCad to test with. If you are making your own new footprints you will have to associate them with 3D models (.wrl). Also KiCad has some configuration for filesystem paths that need to be properly set for KiCad to locate your 3D models. Hope that helps!
That part is one of hundreds already available in KiCad's standard library of parts; I didn't create it. You may want to search for "kicad create footprint" to see how to make new ones.
Hi, Schmidt. I'm trying to make a PCB design directly without making a schematic first but when I try to connect all the vias and tracks it's impossible for me to do it. It doesn't allow me to do it. Could you please give me an idea?
+Miguel Figuereo you weren't specific enough describing your problem for me to help. The PCB layout tool (Pcbnew) does allow working without a net-list from the schematic capture tool.
Not only is this a great tutorial video on KiCad, but an example of how a tutorial video should be made. Unobtrusive background music, good pacing, professional looking edits, and an enthusiastic and clear narration. A cracking experience all'round!
i 'm reakky want to create working background like you .. Could you give me instruction to set up it ? Thank you !!!
You said all I wanted to say. Can’t agree more. One good thing is, I’d like to watch this far more than one time. It’s so info dense and spot on!
How every tutorial should be. About Kicad, not about the presenter LOL. Full marks!
Great job!
Ivan Hamer Thanks, Ivan!
philips cfl ki pcb aur kisi local cfl ki pcb me difference hota hai ? kya philips cfl ki pcb hum ghar pe design kar sakte hai uske liye kya kya chahiye ????
There is a mistake in this video with the netlist is made too early to actually work. Swap two steps round and it works!
+Simon Ellwood You're perfectly correct. I made a mistake in editing the video, thanks for pointing that out! Also, the relationship between the netlist and footprint association file (.cmp) was not obvious to me when I started with KiCad; always learning. :D
i hate that kicad is telling me error 4 something collides wtf it does not
This is one of the most well organized and speedy tutorials I have ever seen for Kicad. Thank you!
It helps when the software is well organized and a pleasure to use. KiCAD is amazing.
This is one of the most well organized and speedy tutorials I have ever seen period.
@@timucinbahsi445 true dat.
i 'm reakky want to create working background like you .. Could you give me instruction to set up it ? Thank you !!!
@@albertsandberg i 'm reakky want to create working background like you .. Could you give me instruction to set up it ? Thank you !!!
The time is NOW for KiCAD tutorials! "So you're fed up with Eagle - here's how to get started with KiCAD" !!
Eagle is OVER.
Autodesk will rue the day
KiCAD library system SUCKS! Who designed it this way and why are they not at the bottom of a river somewhere?
i 'm reakky want to create working background like you .. Could you give me instruction to set up it ? Thank you !!!
Who else came here because they're annoyed by Autodesk? lol
KiCad is the way to go. This from a guy who gets to use the latest OrCAD. KiCad is amazing... it doesn't have the engineering tool suite of a $10,000 a year program like OrCAD, but it is a dream to use.
I'm annoyed by DipTrace. 😐
Thanks a lot - I successfully ported my first project from Eagle to KiCAD while watching your video!
After more than 20 years it's good-bye Eagle now!
Uwe, that's awesome! It really feels good to know that I can contribute to the KiCad community and help others. I'm still learning a lot about KiCad and Electronics in general. Thanks for the comment!
Uwe Zimmermann Agreed.
Great pacing. Most tutorials force me to tap the right key to speed up the pace but you were really concise and fast. I hope you do more of these in the future, there needs to be more fast paced tutorials out there.
Thanks! I felt the same way about pacing, that's part of why I made this. :D I'll do another when I have time; hopefully soon.
Wow, I'm definitely going to be pointing people to this video! Your demo takes all the "it's too hard" out of KiCad.
i 'm reakky want to create working background like you .. Could you give me instruction to set up it ? Thank you !!!
this is one of the best tutorials I have ever seen. Please make more tutorials!
Thanks, I really appreciate the positive comments here! I don't have any other ideas for tutorials. KiCad is approaching a new stable release, so maybe an update to this video is due soon.
Just have to say that this was the BEST TUTORIAL VIDEO I've ever watched. I was a bit daunted by the multiple-part, multiple hour long Kicad videos others had and thought it would be super hard to learn. Your video zips right through things and was the perfect thing to help me design my first PCB!
THANK YOU!!!!
I just wanted to know what was possible in KiCAD and see how it should be used and this was super handy! Going to give it a better crack now.
Same here. This video provides a great overview of KiCAD (well, as far as I can tell).
Allow me to introduce you to the HackRF and the DuetWifi. Both of these boards were completely designed in KiCad, and the project files are provided under an open source license.
greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/
github.com/mossmann/hackrf/
www.duet3d.com/
github.com/T3P3/Duet
For a couple of years now I realised I needed to move to a better pcb package as I am struggling with the smaller components (Im using BM2). Dreaded this move (as I know BM so well I do it in my sleep) but always figured Kicad would be a good option to go to. Holy s**t in a few hours Im converted. Only a couple things I find difficult. Can track widths be changed on the fly? I do plenty rf stuff and need to change often, sometimes even 6 or 7 times in one track as I go under various components. Secondly when I flip TH components to the other side the pads move to a different location and don't line up with the pins. Is this a bug?
Thanks again.
i 'm reakky want to create working background like you .. Could you give me instruction to set up it ? Thank you !!!
Excellent, quick and enough info to get going fast...
That was really helpful - a quick breeze through before there's a risk of getting bogged down and overwhelmed in the detail of the learning process. Thank you.
Great tutorial. In 20mins from nothing to full schematic and pcb.
Really great video......just what i needed to speed learn Kicad basics.
V6 is just out......be great if you could do same again for that new version.......i'm not sure how different it is now.
The best tutorial ever!
Instead of skipping forward all the time, I keep skipping backward and re-watching to see what I missed. Also great in that this is excellent for people who are already using other packages (I used ultiboard, protel, eagle and altium) and I was just looking for an introduction how to create a board outline, route, change track width and some more. These 20+ minutes saved me a lot of clicking around.
Thanks!
Tip I got from another video: You can have the software automatically place the tracks for you to avoid having to do it by hand. I found it a bit tedious when I was doing it myself.
The button is "Mode track: autorouting". It is at the top under the drop down menus, 3rd from the left on my version; click it and it should stay lit. Make sure you the mouse cursor is on (not on the add tracks and vias button). Right click on your PCB screen and select Autoroute > Automatically Route all Footprints
Awesome. Thanks for this video.
That was helpful. Also the black background looks nice, how can I get it for KiCad 4.0.1 windows version?
+Beso Undilashvili Thanks! The background color used for the editing area of the schematic capture and PCB layout tools can be set in the preferences dialog within EESchema and PCBnew. The dark user interface (window borders, icons, menus) is a GTK theme; you'll need to be running Linux and set the theme in your system control panel. The details will depend on which distribution you're running. I don't know if this is possible in Windows or OSX, sorry.
+Windsor Schmidt I'll try that when I run Linux then. Thanks!
From downloading the software to ordering my first boards in two hours with only this video. Now that's what I call a tutorial!
Dude, your music taste is outstanding. Please leave the song list. :D
Unfortunately I forgot to note all the songs I used. My mistake.
think you very much...very good tutorial..quick and concentrated...you have a talent to do good tutorials...please add some more..detailed ones from beginning to finish...it will be the best..
ooooooooooooooooooh ha ha now i'm out of the stone age
also screw music for complicated subjects / when you get old it interfere with the explanations
Dude this was the best youtube tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you! I love that you don't waste any time or talk slow so I have to skip around to the useful parts.
Solid tutorial!! Thank you
I would like to thank you and all who participated in the creation of KICAD. I`m a 50 year old hobbyist that simply doesn`t have thousand of dollars to get started. I`ve used EAGLE and its ok but, I`ve been nickel and dimed to death. To get 100 X 160 mm board. I`ll give my 200 American dollar to to CERN. THANKS AGAIN.
Hmm, found your video from a good review at the KiCAD Yahoo user's group: groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kicad-users/info Looks like good feedback, will watch...
Quick thank you for that exhaustive, short and perfectly paced tutorial. Really made my day !
It would have been better if a basic circuit was produce. E.G. LED, POWER, OPEN SWITCH AND RESISTOR. This is a simple thing I want to do to get started. I want the open switch, but the file was not automatically loaded and now I am having problems finding and loading this item.
Good video, quick and clear. I would have liked to see some edits of on lower layer and usinf vias, but I think I can explor and figure it out. Thanks.
Thank you for the video. My understanding is that the software should perform automatic track routing. I am not familiar with the KiCAD software, so I created my schematics using online free software EasyEDA. This EasyEDA would not allow me to see the actual tracks. I would like to see the actual copper traces on the PCB for each layer. Question - would I be able to load the Gerber files created in this EasyEDA into the KiCAD and see the actual copper traces? Also, can I import my schematics diagram from the EasyEDA into the KiCAD software? Thank you!
Tragically bad; irritating and totally un-necessary background music, much jumping around, and also: for an intro: you couldn't e.g. just pull a couple BJTs and caps and r's out of the library, to show us a multivibrator? Weird, that you felt the need to design your own part. If even the Intro needs a "build it from scratch", we should definitely not be looking at KiCAD.
so if you have 500 parts in the schematic, you have manually assign PCB footprints?????????????
Hahaha, so many years after first watching this video, so much electronics I've done since, yet this is still what I recommend to people wanting to learn KiCAD :-) really excellent tutorial!
This is a very much appreciated tutorial and I appreciate it. Should you make another ..., this was really too fast for me as I couldn't watch what you were doing and find the button/icon/etc on my screen. Maybe just instead of saying "do this" or "click that" say the word or button name. Just really so fast I had to stop, rewind, and repeat like 20 times in the first 5 mins. Really appreciate the tutorial though - thanks.
For anyone looking for a more in-depth full series, try Digi-Key's tutorial ruclips.net/video/vaCVh2SAZY4/видео.html
(not sponsored or anything, just thought it was a good, more in-depth KiCad tutorial that more people should see! you don't have to use Digi-Key. I like getting parts from AliExpress)
How to bring up the PDF? u wr very quick ... i am not understanding how to bring up the datasheet?
Please reply now. I am trying it ............
show me how to design a multilayer pcb!!!!
This is awesome. Just proves you can do all the work on open software like this. I am on Linux full-time for more then 6 month now. No Windows partitions. Programming robotics and IoT. Linux has all the tools and they work amazing.
Not as good as PCBCAD51 which has schematic and PCB component wizards. They make creating new components a piece of cake and very fast.
anybody here ... could you help me to change working place like actor above ......Please!!!!!!!!
This dude really REALLY likes 3d modellings and black and white schematics :P
Nice to be what can be done with KiCAD. A little fast for me as a newbie, but I can watch it multiple times and pick out what I need.
Thanks for sharing. Best Wishes n Blessings. Keith Noneya
Thanks for the great tutorial!
At 12:20 what are filled zones? i guess what are power and ground planes... sorry, this is my first PCB ever! do i need filled zones? my board is low voltage/power.
thanks.
javier v. Power & ground planes are a common use for zones, but you can assign the zone to any defined net/signal. You might want to do some research on your own to decide if you need to use filled zones a.k.a copper pours for your PCB. Even if you have a low power design, filled zones can be used for heat-sinking, easy current return on a ground plane, or they may be required if you need to deal with EMI regulations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_pour Good luck!
Good tutorial, just please - don't drink that much coffee - you move the mouse like you have ADHD, it's all over the place before it reaches the target.
Excellent Tutorial ! PLease add some info on the units and measuring the sizes of board etc.-Thank you.
Other than saying “UHHHH” about 8000 times, wasn’t bad I guess, god damn that shit is annoying AF!! Uhhhhh
i 'm reakky want to create working background like you .. Could you give me instruction to set up it ? Thank you !!!
I spent 5mins with Autodesk Eagle and then deleted it, glad I did because KiCad is awesome ! Need to understand more about what you did with the vias and the design rules relating to ground planes.
Excellent Vedio for starters in designing.. am exhiting to learn and using this tool ..thank you very much
At 9:05, is that a whole new kiCad window? Why doesnt my footprints show up when I'm trying to make do the pcb layout?
you have made a tutorial and used a lot of keyboard shortcuts without mentioning them. Am I dumb or the world is getting dumber....
I drew a schematic and then made the printed circuit board layout in Kicad. Then I modified and added more parts to the schematic. How do I now add these to the printed circuit board layout? Thanks in advance.
A very good tutorial! I just started to make a PCB myself and this video helps me a lot. Thank you!!! :-)
Sorry to say but it took him 3.5 min to create a symbol. Eagle can do this if needed in less than 2. Eagle is more for the pros. Sorry.
It would be better without the "background" music that is more like foreground music :(
Echoing the comments below, this is fantastic. Thank you very much.
Making a video with a dark theme is not a good idea. It's all very difficult to see and to read. Please use a light theme next time.
When I'm looking to start using software, the first thiing I don't want to know is how to create a new part.
Fuck i am disapointed. I hoped it is better than eagle. But no it sucks just like it. At least it's free.
This was really helpful, thank you!
my question is how do you get the dark theme
Eddie Amaya Check the comments above for an explanation.
I found the footprint under connect but couldn't find the symbol so I just created one.
How do I set the parameters so that I don't have to keep changing the size of the vias and track widths when I add a new ones?
Thank you for this video unfortunately you are too fast for a tutorial and too fast for a beginner
Which is the correct pronunciation for kicad, is it k-eye-cad, or k-eee-cad?
What is the hotkey for changing the position of the names of the components in Pcbnew?
6:30 draw the rest of the owl? How to set resistor values?!
It would be a great tutorial but the background music spoils it.
Hard to concentrate with the music. Can do without it but good tutorial to start.
hmmmm..... A little too speed and too much keyboard short cuts
this is so complicated and here i thought it would be similar to tinkercad
versi bahasa : www.academia.edu/37608961/Desain_PCB_Menggunakan_Software_Kicad
A tutorial for None-Dummies.
+Thumbs up
Great introduction. I will have a closer look at KiCad now.
could you plz tell me where can I get the skipped schematics
Nice! what´s your "window manager" ?
Wow man, it looks very easy when you use the software
Thanks! :D
UM im stuck on the open ecad model and search for parts?
How'd you get the dark theme for your kiCAD.
Been using Altium for ages (thanks uni!), but it's time to move on and go completely OSS. This tutorial has me convinced!
If kicad only had a bigger parts library....
Great tutorial, thanks for taking the time to make this video.
+Andrew Wright No problem! It's great to know that people find it useful.
How do I change KiCad to a dark theme please.
I dont understand this:
after you added all the named pins you draw a box
indicating the plastic package TSSOP20
but you do not specify any width and length for
the box - so the STM´s footprint will very likely be
too big or too small
how can I specify that the box should be 4.5 mm wide
and 6.5 mm long BEFORE I add it to the
Elements Library ?
Hi Gerald,
In this tutorial I am only showing the creation of schematic symbols, not the associated PCB footprint. The symbols have no bearing on the footprint. In this video I show how to link the symbol with a footprint from KiCad's standard library of footprints using CvPCB. To be clear, you don't use the schematic symbol editor (EESchema) to specify the physical size of the component; you'd use the PCB footprint editor for that. I wanted to limit the length of this video, so I decided to omit the creation of a footprint, since many new electronic components on the market use footprints that are already defined in the standard library, making symbol creation the more critical operation here. I hope that helps you!
Pretty late, but this is such a great tutorial that's helped me break my procrastination on learning KiCAD/PCB design. Just been following each step on my own comp. What is the RP component? Is it just a resistor package? Was it a custom component or from KiCAD's in-built library?
Jackie Lui hi, yep you can find both resistor networks and resistor packs (discrete resistors in a single package) in the standard KiCad symbol library.
thanks for your video, but it is not actually in 2021 year yet. i think so? because KiCad have already had another better interface and features. especially nightly releases....
You're right. This video is less relevant now, especially with a KiCad 6 release coming soon.
17:05 is my favourite part
This is great - I only actually need to make one PCB, I'll probably never use this software again, so I might well download this and just copy the steps! LOL :D Cheers man!
You may only need one PCB now, but soon you'll be overcome with an intense, inexplicable desire to design more circuits and have them fabricated. I'm sorry; it's just too late to save you. KiCad has become your downfall. :D
Thank you very much for this. We needed a small board for an Arduino Pro Mini LoRaWAN node and with your video I was able to build a board. I will try cutting it on an Other Mill tonight. Thanks again for the quick and precise walk-thru.
Doug LaRue Awesome! I'm glad it helped. I am still learning a lot myself.
When I'm looking at the 3D output it isn't showing the components on the board. Only the PCB design is coming. Any settings required for that?
+saumya gupta Sorry for the late reply. If you have this problem using your own design, you can try loading one of the example files distributed with KiCad to test with. If you are making your own new footprints you will have to associate them with 3D models (.wrl). Also KiCad has some configuration for filesystem paths that need to be properly set for KiCad to locate your 3D models. Hope that helps!
How do u make your Kicad style black?
How did you make the rectangular connector with the header pins in? You glossed over that as you skipped what you were doing lol. Thanks 👍
That part is one of hundreds already available in KiCad's standard library of parts; I didn't create it. You may want to search for "kicad create footprint" to see how to make new ones.
Hi, Schmidt. I'm trying to make a PCB design directly without making a schematic first but when I try to connect all the vias and tracks it's impossible for me to do it. It doesn't allow me to do it. Could you please give me an idea?
+Miguel Figuereo you weren't specific enough describing your problem for me to help. The PCB layout tool (Pcbnew) does allow working without a net-list from the schematic capture tool.