The KiCad Team PCB Editor ## Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad PCB Editor 2 Initial configuration 2 The PCB Editor user interface 3 Navigating the editing canvas 3 Hotkeys 4 Display highlighting 8 Cross-probing from the schematic 8 Left toolbar display controls 8 Creating a PCB 10 Basic PCB concepts 10 Capabilities 10 Starting from a schematic 10 Starting from scratch 11 Board 109 PCB Editor ..... 109 3D Viewer ..... 120 Common ..... 122 ## Reference manual ## NOTE This manual is in the process of being revised to cover the latest stable release version of KiCad. It contains

The KiCad Team PCB Editor ## Table of Contents Introduction to Pcbnew 2 Initial configuration 2 The Pcbnew user interface 3 Navigating the editing canvas 3 Hotkeys 4 Display and selection controls highlighting 8 Cross-probing from the schematic 8 Left toolbar display controls 8 Creating a PCB 10 Basic PCB concepts 10 Capabilities 10 Starting from a schematic 10 Starting from scratch 12 Board 92 PCB Editor ..... 92 3D Viewer ..... 102 Common ..... 104 ## Reference manual ## NOTE This manual is in the process of being revised to cover the latest stable release version of KiCad. It contains

 The KiCad Team ## Reference manual ## Copyright This document is Copyright $ \copyright $ 2010-2015 by its contributors About KiCad document: https://gitlab.com/kicad/services/kicad-doc/issues • About KiCad software: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues • About KiCad software i18n: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad-i18n/issues com/kicad/code/kicad-i18n/issues Publication date and software version 2014, march 17. ### Chapter 1. Introduction to Pcbnew #### 1.1. Description Pcbnew is a powerful printed circuit board software tool available

## KiCad Pcbnew October 31, 2021 ## Contents 1 Introduction to Pcbnew 1 1.1 Description 1 1.2 Principal design features 1 1.3 General remarks 2 2 Installation 3 2.1 Installation of the software Existing Local Libraries 9 2.3.6.2 Adding Libraries from Github 10 2.3.7 Using the KiCad plugin 10 2.3.7.1 Installing KiCad plugin libraries 10 2.3.8 Using the GitHub Plugin 11 2.3.8.1 Copy-On-Write 2.3.8.3 Caching Github requests 13 2.3.9 Usage Patterns 13 2.3.9.1 Modifying footprints in a PCB project 14 General operations 15 3.1 Toolbars and commands 15 3.2 Mouse commands 16 3.2.1 Basic

## Kicao The KiCad Team ## Reference manual ## Copyright This document is Copyright $ \copyright $ 2010-2015 by its contributors as listed below. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms here: • About KiCad document: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues • About KiCad software: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad • About KiCad software i18n: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/issues and manages in real time the hairline indication (rats nest) of missing tracks. The display of the PCB elements (tracks, pads, text, drawings...) is customizable: • In full or outline. • With or without

## Kicad Pcbnew October 31, 2021 ## Contents 1 Introduction to Pcbnew 1 1.1 Description 1 1.2 Principal design features 1 1.3 General remarks 2 2 Installation 3 2.1 Installation of the software for the board outline 46 6.1.2.1 Preparing the DXF drawing for import into KiCad 46 6.1.2.2 Importing the DXF file into KiCad 47 6.1.2.3 Example imported DXF shape 48 6.1.3 Reading the netlist generated 8.2 General options 60 8.3 Netclasses 62 8.3.1 Setting routing parameters 62 8.3.2 Netclass editor 62 8.3.3 Global Design Rules 63 8.3.4 Via parameters 64 8.3.5 Track parameters 65 8.3.6 Specific

The KiCad Team PCB Editor ## Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad PCB Editor 2 Initial configuration 2 The PCB Editor user interface 3 Navigating the editing canvas 3 Hotkeys 4 Display highlighting 8 Cross-probing from the schematic 9 Left toolbar display controls 9 Creating a PCB 11 Basic PCB concepts 11 Capabilities 11 Starting from a schematic 11 Starting from scratch 12 Board .. 183 PCB Editor ..... 183 3D ビューア ..... 195 Common ..... 196 ## リファレンス・マニュアル NOTE This manual is in the process of being revised to cover the latest stable release version of KiCad. It contains

The KiCad Team PCB Editor ## Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad PCB Editor 2 Initial configuration 2 The PCB Editor user interface 3 Navigating the editing canvas 3 Hotkeys 4 Display highlighting 8 Cross-probing from the schematic 9 Left toolbar display controls 9 Creating a PCB 11 Basic PCB concepts 11 Capabilities 11 Starting from a schematic 11 Starting from scratch 12 Board 184 PCB Editor ..... 184 3D Viewer ..... 196 Common ..... 197 ## Reference manual ## NOTE This manual is in the process of being revised to cover the latest stable release version of KiCad. It contains

PCB Editor The KiCad Team Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad PCB Editor … 2 The PCB Editor user interface … 3 Navigating the editing canvas … 3 Hotkeys … 4 Display and selection controls … 5 highlighting … 9 Cross-probing from the schematic … 9 Left toolbar display controls … 10 Creating a PCB … 12 Basic PCB concepts … 12 Capabilities … 12 Starting from a schematic … 12 Starting from scratch … 13 Board and gate swapping … 140 Forward and back annotation … 145 Update PCB From Schematic (forward annotation) … 145 Update Schematic from PCB (back annotation) … 149 Geographical re-annotation … 152 Inspecting

PCB Editor The KiCad Team Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad PCB Editor … 2 Initial configuration … 2 The PCB Editor user interface … 4 Navigating the editing canvas … 4 Hotkeys … 5 Display and highlighting … 9 Cross-probing from the schematic … 10 Left toolbar display controls … 10 Creating a PCB … 12 Basic PCB concepts … 12 Capabilities … 12 Starting from a schematic … 12 Starting from scratch … 13 Board reference images … 109 Forward and back annotation … 111 Update PCB From Schematic (forward annotation) … 111 Update Schematic from PCB (back annotation) … 115 Geographical re-annotation … 117 Inspecting