Publication date and software version Published on May 30, 2015. #### 1.1. Description Eeschema is a schematic capture software distributed as a part of KiCad and available under the following operating systems: intended to cooperate with PcbNew, which is KiCad’s printed circuit design software. It can also export netlist files, which lists all the electrical connections, for other packages. Eeschema includes essential functions needed for modern schematic capture software: • Electrical rules check (ERC) for the automatic control of incorrect and missing connections • Export of plot files in many formats (Postscript

menu / Component Libraries 3.2.3 Preferences menu / Set Color Scheme 3.2.4 Preferences menu / Schematic Editor Options ..... 20 3.2.5 Preferences and Language ..... 21 3.3 Help menu ..... 21 General Top Toolbar ..... 22 4.1 Sheet management ..... 22 4.2 Options of the schematic editor ..... 23 4.2.1 General options ..... 23 4.2.2 Template fields names ..... 23 4.3 Search tool . tool ..... 29 4.8 Import tool for footprint assignment: ..... 30 4.8.1 Access: ..... 30 Schematic Creation and Editing ..... 31 5.1 Introduction ..... 31 5.2 General considerations ..... 31

date and software version Published on may 30, 2015. #### 1.1. Description Eeschema is powerful schematic capture software distributed as part of KiCad and available under the following operating systems: Eeschema is intended to work with PcbNew, which is KiCad’s printed circuit design software. It can also export netlist files, which list all the electrical connections, for other packages. Eeschema includes essential functions needed for modern schematic capture software: • Electrical rules check (ERC) for the automatic control of incorrect and missing connections • Export of plot files in many formats (Postscript

The KiCad Team Schematic Editor ## Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad Schematic Editor ..... 2 Description ..... 2 Initial Configuration ..... 2 The Schematic Editor User Interface .. and selection ..... 5 Left toolbar display controls ..... 6 Schematic Creation and Editing ..... 8 Introduction ..... 8 Schematic editing operations ..... 8 Grids ..... 9 Snapping ..... 10 Annotation ..... 20 Electrical Connections ..... 23 Netclasses ..... 35 Graphical items ..... 39 Schematic Setup ..... 45 Opening legacy schematics ..... 51 Hierarchical schematics ..... 56 Introduction

The KiCad Team Schematic Editor ## Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad Schematic Editor ..... 2 Description ..... 2 Initial Configuration ..... 2 The Schematic Editor User Interface .. and selection ..... 5 Left toolbar display controls ..... 6 Schematic Creation and Editing ..... 7 Introduction ..... 7 Schematic editing operations ..... 7 Grids ..... 9 Snapping ..... 9 Designators and Symbol Annotation ..... 15 Electrical Connections ..... 17 Graphical items ..... 26 Schematic Setup ..... 28 Rescuing cached symbols ..... 28 Hierarchical schematics ..... 30 Introduction

Environment Variable Substitution 37 5.1.6 Usage Patterns 38 5.1.7 Legacy Project Remapping 38 6 Schematic Creation and Editing 40 6.1 Introduction 40 6.2 General considerations 40 6.3 The development file (DocFileName) 115 13.5.4 Footprint filtering for CvPcb 115 13.6 Symbol library 116 13.6.1 Export or create a symbol 117 13.6.2 Import a symbol 117 14 Symbol Library Browser 118 14.1 Introduction 15 Creating Customized Netlists and BOM Files 121 15.1 Intermediate Netlist File 121 15.1.1 Schematic sample 121 15.1.2 The Intermediate Netlist file sample 122 15.2 Conversion to a new netlist

The KiCad Team Schematic Editor ## Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad Schematic Editor ..... 2 Description ..... 2 Initial Configuration ..... 2 The Schematic Editor User Interface .. and selection ..... 5 Left toolbar display controls ..... 6 Schematic Creation and Editing ..... 8 Introduction ..... 8 Schematic editing operations ..... 8 Grids and snapping ..... 9 Editing Connections ..... 25 Netclasses ..... 36 Graphical items ..... 41 Schematic editing convenience functions ..... 48 Schematic Setup ..... 48 Opening legacy schematics ..... 56 Hierarchical schematics

The KiCad Team Schematic Editor ## Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad Schematic Editor ..... 2 概要 ..... 2 初期設定 ..... 2 The Schematic Editor User Interface ..... 4 Navigating the editing selection ..... 5 Left toolbar display controls ..... 6 回路図の作成と編集 ..... 8 はじめに ..... 8 Schematic editing operations ..... 8 Grids and snapping ..... 9 Editing object properties ..... 11 Working Connections ..... 25 Netclasses ..... 36 Graphical items ..... 41 Schematic editing convenience functions ..... 47 Schematic Setup ..... 48 Opening legacy schematics ..... 55 階層回路図 ..... 60

Schematic Editor The KiCad Team Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad Schematic Editor … 2 The Schematic Editor User Interface … 3 Navigating the editing canvas … 3 Hotkeys … 4 Selection and the the selection filter … 4 Left toolbar display controls … 6 Schematic Creation and Editing … 8 Introduction … 8 Schematic editing operations … 8 Grids and snapping … 10 Editing object properties … 11 Working Rule areas … 52 Graphics and text … 55 Groups … 67 Aligning objects … 69 Schematic editing convenience functions … 71 Schematic Setup … 73 Opening legacy schematics … 83 Multiple sheets and hierarchical

Schematic Editor The KiCad Team Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad Schematic Editor … 2 Initial Configuration … 2 The Schematic Editor User Interface … 4 Navigating the editing canvas … 4 Hotkeys Selection and the selection filter … 5 Left toolbar display controls … 6 Schematic Creation and Editing … 8 Introduction … 8 Schematic editing operations … 8 Grids and snapping … 10 Editing object properties Connections … 32 Net classes … 46 Component classes … 51 Graphics and text … 52 Schematic editing convenience functions … 64 Schematic Setup … 65 Opening legacy schematics … 76 Hierarchical schematics … 80 Introduction