To use PCB CAD effectively you not only have to go up the learning curve but also build up your own library of parts because the standard parts library never have all the things you need.
#KICAD FLIP BOARD VIEW HOW TO#
To use CAD effectively, you not only have to go up a pretty steep learning curve, you have to keep using it so as not to forget how to use it. I want to use CAD but I don't want to be a CAD designer. I want to draw mechanical things but I don't want to be a mechanical designer. I want to design PCBs but I don't want to be a PCB designer. I too was brought up and blue and reds and hand taping. I have a pretty good idea where you are coming from. Learning Curve! Thanks for any assistance!!! It appears that "magic numbers" for the pin numbers in the schemo app somehow translate into PCBnew. I also am a bit clueless how the schemo elements link into the footprint elements which then link into the PCBnew, with ALL having to link pinouts so that (as an example) the Emitter pin of a transistor drawn in the Schemo app hooks into the correct pad in the layout of PCBnew. Via Google, I did find some "3rd Party" Library Managers for this, but haven't explored them. managing the libraries.including the schemo, device footprints, etc. Fortunately, I'll just uninstall Kicad and begin anew. What SEEMS to happen if I'm not VERY cautious is that I overwrite the originals. So, my Simplistic idea is to "grab the components that I need" from various libraries, then copy them into my own library stash required for the project. I spend too much time messing with it, and then sometimes accidentally overwrite a "stock" library item. The entire "library" structure of Kicad seems to be confounding me. I have read/watched multiple tutorials, and actually drew up a schemo for a very simple circuit with a single NPN transistor and a few resistors, annotated it, etc etc, then "plopped" it into PCBnew, then dragged around the various elements. I am working on something a bit more complex, involving multiple discrete transistors, etc.
I've done a bunch of reading and research, then decided that Kicad looks like a good choice for me.
#KICAD FLIP BOARD VIEW PC#
It was intended to be "made in the kitchen", or via a vendor like this guy who makes PC boards from tape-up negs/positives:
#KICAD FLIP BOARD VIEW PDF#
Ī couple examples of PC boards used in a desk I built back in 1977, using the tape-up technique:ĪNYWAY, I dabbled a bit 11 years ago doing a relatively simple PSU card, using my fave CAD app, DesignCAD, and I attached a PDF to this missive showing what I did (and I have NO idea what the scaling factor is on that PDF). In a few cases, I did one-off "short runs" from the 1X negs/positives in my kitchen. A local shop catering to the printing industry would take my 2X tape-ups and reduce them down to actual size, so a PCB maker could then crank out the boards. First of all, I'm not a newbie when it comes to laying out PCBs.but it's been eons since I've done any.īack in the 1970's, I taught myself the "art" using clear Mylar film sitting on a light table with a translucent grid beneath the Mylar, and using Bishop Graphics "stick on" footprints for DIPs, "doughnuts" for pads, and various widths of tape to "connect the dots".all in 2X sizing.
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