Workflow … 3 PCB Design Workflow … 6 Tutorial Part 1: Project … 7 Tutorial Part 2: Schematic … 9 Symbol Library Table Setup … 9 Schematic Editor Basics … 9 Schematic Sheet Setup … 10 Adding Symbols to to the Schematic … 11 Selecting and Moving Objects … 13 Wiring the Schematic … 14 Annotation, Symbol Properties, and Footprints … 15 Electrical Rules Check … 17 Bill of Materials … 19 Tutorial Part 3: Circuit schematic (“Schematic Editor”), laying out the board (“PCB Editor”), and editing symbols and footprints (“Symbol Editor” and “Footprint Editor”). KiCad comes with a large library of high quality, user contributed

netlist files, which lists all the electrical connections, for other packages. Eeschema includes a symbol library editor, which can create and edit symbols and manage libraries. It also integrates the following Single click: displays the characteristics of the symbol or text under the cursor in the status bar. • Double click: edit (if the element is editable) the symbol or text. ## Right button • Opens a pop-up Duplicate Symbol or Label C Add Symbol A Add Power P Mirror X X Mirror Y Y Orient Normal Symbol N Edit Symbol Value V Edit Symbol Reference U Edit Symbol Footprint F Edit with Symbol Editor

Design Workflow ..... 6 Tutorial Part 1: Project ..... 7 Tutorial Part 2: Schematic ..... 9 Symbol Library Table Setup ..... 9 Schematic Editor Basics ..... 9 Schematic Sheet Setup ..... 10 Schematic ..... 11 Selecting and Moving Objects ..... 13 Wiring the Schematic ..... 13 Annotation, Symbol Properties, and Footprints ..... 15 Electrical Rules Check ..... 17 Bill of Materials ..... 18 Editor"), laying out the board ("PCB Editor"), and editing symbols and footprints ("Symbol Editor" and "Footprint Editor"). KiCad comes with a large library of high quality, user-contributed

snapping … 10 Editing object properties … 11 Working with symbols … 13 Reference Designators and Symbol Annotation … 29 Electrical Connections … 32 Net classes … 46 Component classes … 51 Graphics and from the PCB … 92 Electrical rules checking … 93 Assigning Footprints … 106 Assigning Footprints in Symbol Properties … 106 Assigning Footprints While Placing Symbols … 108 Assigning Footprints with the Footprint materials … 128 Generating a Netlist … 133 Symbols and Symbol Libraries … 141 Managing symbol libraries … 141 Creating and editing symbols … 144 Browsing symbol libraries … 172 Schematic design blocks … 174 Using

Editing object properties ..... 10 Working with symbols ..... 10 Reference Designators and Symbol Annotation ..... 20 Electrical Connections ..... 23 Netclasses ..... 35 Graphical items .. . 64 Electrical Rules Check ..... 64 Assigning Footprints ..... 74 Assigning Footprints in Symbol Properties ..... 74 Assigning Footprints While Placing Symbols ..... 76 Assigning Footprints Generating a Netlist ..... 94 Symbols and Symbol Libraries ..... 101 Managing symbol libraries ..... 101 Creating and editing symbols ..... 104 Browsing symbol libraries ..... 130 Simulator ..... 131

Interface ..... 2 kicad-cli commands ..... 3 Footprint ..... 3 PCB ..... 4 Schematic ..... 12 Symbol ..... 17 Version ..... 18 ## Reference manual ## NOTE This manual is in the process of being footprints in an automated fashion, such as plotting Gerber files from a PCB design or upgrading a symbol library from a legacy file format to a modern format. |NOTE|On macOS, the kicad-cli executable export any subsheets.| ## Symbol The sym subcommand exports symbols to another format or upgrades symbol libraries to the current version of the KiCad symbol file format. ## Symbol export The sym export

snapping … 10 Editing object properties … 11 Working with symbols … 14 Reference designators and symbol annotation … 30 Electrical connections … 32 Wires … 33 Labels … 36 Buses … 39 Power symbols … 45 the PCB … 101 Electrical rules checking … 101 Assigning Footprints … 115 Assigning Footprints in Symbol Properties … 115 Assigning Footprints While Placing Symbols … 118 Assigning Footprints with the Footprint to the PCB editor … 157 Symbols and Symbol Libraries … 158 Managing symbol libraries … 158 Browsing symbol libraries … 163 Creating and editing symbols … 165 Symbol Editor overview … 165 Browsing, modifying

Editing object properties ..... 11 Working with symbols ..... 12 Reference Designators and Symbol Annotation ..... 23 Electrical Connections ..... 25 Netclasses ..... 36 Graphical items .. . 71 Electrical Rules Check ..... 71 Assigning Footprints ..... 81 Assigning Footprints in Symbol Properties ..... 81 Assigning Footprints While Placing Symbols ..... 83 Assigning Footprints Generating a Netlist ..... 103 Symbols and Symbol Libraries ..... 110 Managing symbol libraries ..... 110 Creating and editing symbols ..... 113 Browsing symbol libraries ..... 139 Simulator ..... 140