schematic capture program Eeschema to create printed circuit boards. Pcbnew manages libraries of footprints. Each footprint is a drawing of the physical component including its land pattern (the layout of required footprints are automatically loaded during the reading of the Netlist. Any changes to footprint selection or annotation can be changed in the schematic and updated in pcbnew by regenerating the footprints which are connected on the schematic. These connections move dynamically as track and footprint movements are made. Pcbnew has a simple but effective autorouter to assist in the production of

schematic capture program Eeschema to create printed circuit boards. Pcbnew manages libraries of footprints. Each footprint is a drawing of the physical component including its land pattern (the layout of required footprints are automatically loaded during the reading of the Netlist. Any changes to footprint selection or annotation can be changed in the schematic and updated in pcbnew by regenerating the footprints which are connected on the schematic. These connections move dynamically as track and footprint movements are made. Pcbnew has a simple but effective autorouter to assist in the production of

generated by Eeschema specifies which printed circuit board footprint is associated with each component in the schematic only when the footprint field of the component is initialized. This is the case when when component footprints are associated during schematic capture by setting the component’s footprint field, or it is set in the schematic library when loading the symbol. CvPcb provides a convenient components during schematic capture. It provides footprint list filtering, footprint viewing, and 3D component model viewing to help ensure the correct footprint is associated with each component. Components

generated by Eeschema specifies which printed circuit board footprint is associated with each component in the schematic only when the footprint field of the component is initialized. This is the case when when component footprints are associated during schematic capture by setting the component’s footprint field, or it is set in the schematic library when loading the symbol. CvPcb provides a convenient components during schematic capture. It provides footprint list filtering, footprint viewing, and 3D component model viewing to help ensure the correct footprint is associated with each component. Components

layout editor and footprint editor GerbView: Gerber viewer 3 utility tools are also included: Bitmap2Component: Component maker for logos. It creates a schematic component or a footprint from a bitmap picture table): list of symbol libraries available in the schematic editor. Board editor files and folders: *.kicad_pcb Board file containing all info but the page layout. *.pretty Footprint library folders. The kicad_modFootprint files, containing one footprint description each. *.brd Board file in the legacy format. Can be read, but not written, by the current board editor. *.mod Footprint library in the legacy format

packages. Eeschema includes a symbol library editor, which can create and edit symbols and manage libraries. It also integrates the following additional but essential functions needed for modern schematic Mirror Y Y Orient Normal Symbol N Edit Symbol Value V Edit Symbol Reference U Edit Symbol Footprint F Edit with Symbol Editor Ctrl+E Begin Wire W Begin Bus B End Line Wire Bus K Add Label L and go up in the hierarchy. Call the symbol library editor to view and modify libraries and symbols. Browse symbol libraries. Annotate symbols. Electrical Rules Checker (ERC), automatically validate electrical

Eeschema includes a component symbol editor, which can create and edit components and manage libraries. It also integrates the following additional but essential functions needed for modern schematic go up in the hierarchy. Call component editor Libedit to view and modify libraries and component symbols. Display libraries (Viewlib). Annotate components. Electrical rules check (ERC), automatically Materials). Edit footprint. Call CvPcb to assign footprints to components. Call Pcbnew to perform a PCB layout. Back-import component footprints (selected using CvPcb) into the "footprint" fields. 2.9

manager *.pro Eeschema Schematic and component editor *.sch, *.lib, *.net Pcbnew Circuit board and footprint editor *.kicad_pcb, *.kicad_mod GerbView Gerber and drill file viewer *.g\*, *.drl, etc. Bit tasks: drawing the schematic and laying out the board. Both a schematic component library and a PCB footprint library are necessary for these two tasks. KiCad includes many components and footprints, and also creating a component, read Making schematic symbols. And for information about how to create a new footprint, see Making component footprints. Quicklib is a tool that allows you to quickly create KiCad library

: schematic editor and component editor CvPcb : footprint selector helper (always run from Eeschema) Pcbnew : circuit board layout editor and footprint editor GerbView : Gerber viewer 3 utilities are are included Bitmap2Component: component maker for logos. It creates a schematic component or a footprint from a bitmap picture. PcbCalculator: A calculator that is helpful to calculate components for containing all info but the page layout. *.pretty Footprint library folders. The folder itself is the library. *.kicad_modFootprint files, containing one footprint description each. *.brd Board file in the

manager *.pro Eeschema Schematic editor (both schematic and component) *.sch, *.lib, *.net CvPcb Footprint selector *.net Pcbnew Circuit board board editor *.kicad_pcb GerbView Gerber viewer All the usual of two main tasks: making the schematic and laying out the board. Both a component library and a footprint library are necessary for these two tasks. KiCad has plenty of both. Just in case that is not enough document titled Make schematic components in KiCad. And for more information about how to create a new footprint, see the section of this document titled Make component footprints. On the following site: http://kicad