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KiCad
Добавлен 22 авг 2015
Official promotional and info channel for KiCad, the open source EDA software for PCB and schematic design.
FOSDEM 2024 - ngspice circuit simulator stand alone and embedded into kicad
A talk by Holger Vogt, maintainer of ngspice about developments in ngspice and exploration of KiCad's next major updates enhancements to simulation with ngspice.
fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2834-ngspice-circuit-simulator-stand-alone-and-embedded-into-kicad/
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FOSDEM 2024 - KiCad Status Update
Просмотров 9 тыс.4 месяца назад
An update of the happenings in the KiCad project since FOSDEM 2023. fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1709-kicad-status-update/
DFM for Designers - KiCon Asia 2023
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Carmen Zheng from @HQ_Nextpcb discusses how DFM tools can be used with KiCad to improve your design process. This talk was given at KiCon Asia 2023.
Level up Your Custom Rules - KiCon Asia 2023
Просмотров 6397 месяцев назад
Seth Hillbrand explains some of the best loved and least known features of what you can do with KiCad's custom rules. Talk given at KiCon Asia 2023. Thank you to @HQ_Nextpcb for organizing and hosting KiCon Asia!
KiCad Project Update - KiCon Asia 2023
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Wayne Stambaugh provides an update on the current status of the KiCad project and takes questions at KiCad Asia 2023. Thanks to @HQ_Nextpcb for organizing and hosting KiCon Asia 2023.
KiCon 2023 Migrating to KiCad
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Learn how to migrate existing designs to KiCad with Roberto Fernández Bautista. Covers migrating libraries, schematics and layouts with attention to CADstar and Altium use cases. Roberto is a member of the KiCad Lead Development team and a full-time technical engineer at CERN in Switzerland. A PDF of this talk is available at kicon.kicad.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Migrating-to-KiCad-KiCon-2...
KiCon 2023 diffgerber
Просмотров 9819 месяцев назад
Andrew Whyte describes creating and improving a tool to generate graphical gerber differences Andy Whyte is an Electroincs Designer and Chartered Mechanical Engineer. Through his design house, Paramita Electronics, he has been using open source EDA and engineering tools to bring electronic products to market since 2008. His experience at research labs in and diverse fields such as AI for Sony r...
KiCon 2023 Generating Parts the KiCad Way
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Learn how to generate your own KiCad footprints and 3D models automagically using the KiCad generator scripts and built-in wizards. Including steps to contribute generated models back to the larger community. Slides are available at kicon.kicad.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Generate_Models_KiCon2023.pdf Seth Hillbrand (@SethHillbrand) is the founder of KiCad Services Corporation and a lead dev...
KiCon 2023 Database Libraries
Просмотров 5 тыс.9 месяцев назад
A walkthrough from Jon Evans of how Database Libraries work and some useful examples of how to use this feature of KiCad to integrate with other software tools in your workflow. Q&A follows the talk. Slides are available at kicon.kicad.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/KiCon-2023-Database-Libraries.pdf KiCon 2023 was held in A Coruña, Spain, September 9-10 and brought together KiCad lead developer...
KiCad FOSDEM 2020: Back to the Future
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KiCad FOSDEM 2020: Back to the Future
KiCad FOSDEM 2018: Status & New Features in KiCad 5
Просмотров 7 тыс.6 лет назад
KiCad FOSDEM 2018: Status & New Features in KiCad 5
KiCad FOSDEM 2017: Integrated Spice Simulation
Просмотров 20 тыс.7 лет назад
KiCad FOSDEM 2017: Integrated Spice Simulation
KiCad FOSDEM 2017: Diving into the KiCad source code
Просмотров 1,6 тыс.7 лет назад
KiCad FOSDEM 2017: Diving into the KiCad source code
KiCad Eeschema Basic Editing Features
Просмотров 89 тыс.8 лет назад
KiCad Eeschema Basic Editing Features
I Love KiCad Best regard From TamilNadu Agastinraj S
You are best ever 🙏 Thanks alot
I love KiCAD SO much! Since i got my ZX-Spectrum ages ago i basically live between a computer and a chair and in all these years i've never seen a program that well made - it's super friendly to newcomers and is intuitive, UI is simple and easy to understand. And yet it's a very powerful tool that supports even more complexity via plugins and scripting (hope you guys finish polishing it). Much love from a fan <3
Can this support arbitrary library hierarchies? so I can finally have separate nested folders for each of something like "connectors -> jst -> sh -> smd -> right angle -> [actual list of connector components]" instead of making convoluted component names so they get alphabetically sorted?
Great question, have you found an answer?
@@BHBalast It can not unfortionately. Kicad is lagging behind in this area. The main thing it does is allow you to use the same symbol/footprint across multiple parts. So for a resistor you just add a new part with the updated value and part number and you can easially add a whole series of parts without recreating a bunch of symbols. Now if only you could sort those boatload of parts you just made.
I love KiCAD! You can't beat the price. Please don't forget the support the team and donate...
If you want to learn more about ngspice simulation in KiCad 8. Holger has started a video series of tutorials: ruclips.net/video/nvtybUhoTOQ/видео.html
I think we need to pitch in for a new laptop for Wayne :)
“EasyEDA project importer” - please no. There are no decent EasyEDA schematics out there. They all look like shit. All this will do is get people to get their broken designs into KiCad. Yuck. If anything, if your design is worth importing into KiCad, it’s worth redrawing properly in KiCad.
This is great, I always had an issue with the KiCad library.
I’m very happy to start simulating in KiCad! Thanks guys, keep it up 😃
It is unfortunate that it is not clear which parts of the presentation relate to ngspice, which parts relate to KiCad 8, and which parts relate to both working in conjunction (KiCad GUI with ngspice). Also, it would be helpful to have a link to a Git repository containing KiCad projects with the Schematics+ngspice models from the presentation.
I think it is very clear. KiCad only provides ngspice with a gui. It does nothing else. All other features are those of ngspice.
@@absurdengineering it is in no way clear which parts of ngspice that were discussed are currently exposed in the KiCad 8 UI, though. I KNOW that quite a few of the subjects are NOT currently available. That was what I was referring to.
Interesting feature could be Team working capabilities for a very large design, ok ok it sounds crazy and not easy but I mean something you can work on the PCB and another one is changing the schematic, then the working team connected receive the notification instantly that someone has changed some parts and needs attention before to push into the repository or blindly kick off others works out.
With an implemented Git Workflow this should be already possible, or?
Awesome, it keeps getting better, those v9 features also look extremely useful.
I am glad database is there this was the limiting feature which made my colleagues stay away for long. Also Kicad + Octopart or Digikey API will be just cherry on top.
Second that, manfacturer part search like Altium will be the cherry on top. If Altium allows Octopart to be used.
Watch out for 'Flux' and the AI related features coming through, albeit on a handful of commercial packages. Altium is way ahead on BOM generation. On the other hand KiCAD wipes the floor (IMO) with ANY package older than 10 years!
“Way ahead on BoM generation” Umm, what? You can get whatever you want with a few lines of Python…
@@absurdengineeringSome of us don't want to spend weeks learing python. The Mac OS version of KiCAD has serious bugs in BoM generation.
@@robertbrown3413And the Mac OS Version of Altium is doing better? ;)
I do hope you guys will eventually look at your renderer again. Not having control over the z-layer order of symbol components has been frustrating when wanting symbols to have lines draw over one another in a particular order.
Ah, it's supposed to be pronounced "Kee-cad". I always say it "Kiy-cad".
Ok, how about adding simulation of PCB traces and SI in KiCAD ?
It's a wishlist item but it's quite technically complex. The open source solutions for FEM are very unwieldy to integrate, many depend on Fortran which causes crossplatform issues.
@@kicadeda , got it. thanks. Thank you very much for KiCAD!
In the introduction, one should directly say: "zone fills are generated based on custom rules where they apply, and thus such rules do not need to be considered in the context of DRC checks again. Otherwise, frankly, that would be a bug." 22:00 the name of the example (PTH in pad) is pin-in-paste for through-hole reflow. 24:30 oddly enough, 'F*' does not seem to apply to F.Cu, so it neither allows influencing zone fill with graphic items, nor can an error be generated when silkscreen is e.g. on RF traces sensitive to extra dielectric on top. 26:00 I keep pressing CTRL+F and wonder why no search bar pops up in the syntax help. I then keep copying the help text to notepad++... 34:46 custom rule for length matching: what you cannot do right now is e.g. to have a single rule that uses regex on the net class name to grab a length spec from that string, which would be cool
That's a serious upgrade. Well done. I wish to see a version of kicad that's self hosted and runs in a browser. Sometimes I need to work remotely, and something like easyEDA makes a lot of sense.
Unfortunately, that is such a large undertaking, we would have to scrap the development of desktop KiCad because it makes no sense to maintain two radically independent and technologically different codebases.
@@kicadedaIt’s not that big of a deal if you moved over to Qt for the core library. It would run in the browser out of the box. Qt is a much nicer framework than wxW so there’s that too :)
Kicad has gone from strength to strength in recent years. Shows what can happen when people get behind OSS.
Thank you for your work, it's truly an incredible piece of software!
I'm hyped for the V9!!
The software is getting to the point I'm starting to consider it a good alternative to Altium... V9 roadmap makes it even more so... you're on a roll! You've reached that point where the software is good enough for serious professional use and that gives you money and resources to make it even better and so forth... last few meters to go and you'll be the new standard! Keep it up everyone!
I think it's better than altium since 7... 😂
for the first time I've seen a Job advert stating "bonus point: KiCAD knowledge" as tool for PCB design
I refused to renew my Altium license 18 months ago. The company and its sales people behave as though they're the only show in town and are completely inflexible even to advance hobbyists. Got an email asking for some absurd amount of money to restart my "subscription" a couple weeks ago. No thanks. For the first time I'll be using Kicad 8 in anger and if good enough start planning to migrate away from Altium forever.
@@muhdiversity7409 Altium IS expensive, if you pay for the updates (I'd recommend a small business to get a license, then stay on the same license indefinitely), but considering it's meant for businesses that do multi millions a year AND require the feature set, the price is a non issue. Single designer costs like 40 000€/ year for the companyt, fleet of them costs 400000€/year... few tens of thousands for licence so they can do their job is pretty much a rounding error. And since altium completely revamped their code base (which took tons of money and was a huge risk, I'm sure) they're only getting onward faster than before and are in prime position to fight against other, or free offerings. Hobbyists SHOULD definitely use Kicad or something else than Altium, but the fact is that Kicad still has some ways to go with the UI, customizability and with feature integration to get to that level. But it's getting there. And you can't stop it. Only matter of time.
@@muhdiversity7409 I tell you more arbsurdity. With the licence you pay, you can only use Altium around your geographical area. I travelled to another Country with my work laptop to deliver some demos to a customer and I opened Altium to show the layout. few days later after I came back to my office Altium guys called me asking why I was using Altium into another country. Unbelievable experience. !!!!!!
Good stuff!
Looking forward to Kicad 8!
Looks interesting but I can't read the slides.
I wish it would be possible to migrate mentor/siemens Pads project into Kicad. Siemens software is such a crap!
Thank you your presentation. I found my fault of Our my db integration problem. The value attribute was not turning on automatically. I found my fault. I used {... : "true",}. But I was should {.... : true, }
How to install kicad V8.0?
These yearly conferences are totally nuts and one of my favourites on RUclips. OpenWRT has done this too ...are you listening FreeCad?
Would have been much better with pictures illustrating functions. Anyway thanks to the team. Waiting impatiently version 8 :)
I would recommend to add the presented Rules in the kicad rules example section
Thank you for all your work!
I have a wish list (thumbs up if you agree ;-) ): - Combine fills with different settings - Overwrite properties like thermal gap for the whole footprint - Stop changing GUI symbols over and over again - Change properties of many symbols/footprints if they are common (dont populate, width of graphic elements, etc) - Net tie on inner layers - Draw grid on top! Its hidden when more layers are activated. Which makes it almost useless. - When changing a net, and opening the dropdown list, have the old entry selected, so you dont have to scroll, when changing from GND1 to GND2. - clearance properties for a track - catch mouse pointer on pick point (corners) with more range (without really clicking on it) - circle as track! There is an option to make a track out of a circle, but it does not work. - Easy change of layer, of every element, even if in groups or selecetions of many kinds. (If different layers, ignore, and set to new layer) - When selecting lines in the schematic, highlight them in the PCB editor - When footprint created, make it available in symboleditor! - make filter in footprint library browser find a certain footprint. Cant find a footprint without selecting its parent folder! - Grouping of smybols in schematics - Make it more visible if in group (PCB editor) - Rounting of multiple tracks at once - Mirroring of more than one footprint. Also on a group. - When minimizing and maximising the schematic editor, let it maximize in the previous position. - ratsnest line between different layers should start from via, and not from the nearest point of the "wrong" layer, as the via would be the point we trace from. - When placing via is active, show before placing, if it could be placed at the place where the mouse points to - show footprint that is selected with arrow keys in the browser - option to have certain symbols not beeing "annotation reset"
PLEASE do not add new features! Make those existing features work effciently without bugs! And please dont alter the appearance of the buttons over and over again.
The button artwork revamp was in 2022. It was necessitated by license issues and the style was inconsistent and in some cases garish. I don't love all of the graphics but it is more consistent. Have you reported the bugs in the bug tracker?
Ian you will earn my greatest gratitude if you decide to add gEDA/PCB import. There are some old and important projects that I really need to get into KiCad. I could not get any of the existing scripts to work. Plus gEDA is not running on modern Linux distributions any more. So I hope you decide to fill those boxes. :D
Is Jon an AI Bot?
No, just photogenic lol
Not a bot, just experiencing a really "fun" audio quality bug somewhere
Totally missed the event! Has there been an announcement? Certainly not on your mastodon channel, hint hint :) I was already sad because I thought there wouldn't be an end-of-year livestream this year!
What is the reason for keeping both the generated footprint and the .yml used to generate it in the GitLab? Is it for the case where we want to update the KLC rules, and then regenerate ALL the footprints in the library accordingly using the .yml "source files"? Or is it just for others to come and grab existing .yml and modify it for their footprint so they can generate it quicker?
Thank you to everyone who is involved!
Can you add multiple symbols per component in 7.x or only in 8.x?
Great work, as always! The hobbiest community couldn't do it without you!
Thank you very much to Kicad Development team who make very good tools for free. I hope Kicad will free forever. Thanks again.
This was a really good presentation. After seeing the discussions that have been on the KiCAD user forum and how much misunderstandings there were in those, I think this was useful.
What happened with the flat hierarchy multiple file designs in version 8 schematic editor? It was in the KiCon 2023 project status video but not here.
P R O M O S M
Very interesting. And the polite and precise answers to questions. Thank you!
I see no connection to KiCad at all, plus kicad's gerbiew already has graphical diff support 🤷
Where can I find this tool?
Have you tried typing in "diffgerber" in your favourite search engine?