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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: electrogeek on March 05, 2016, 10:50:09 am

Title: Kicad for noobs
Post by: electrogeek on March 05, 2016, 10:50:09 am

Hi

Is there is a good brief guide to kicad out there? I'v been using altium at work for years but would like to get into some home projects however to say how kicad works is a bit opaque to me is something of an understatement

Cheers

Title: Re: Kicad for noobs
Post by: stryker on March 05, 2016, 11:30:17 am

Hi

I've found the videos by Chris at the Contextual Electronics site (https://contextualelectronics.com/course/kicad-tutorial/) among the best, but with the caveat that I don't know how many (if any) have been updated to the current stable release 4.0.  There was a long time and significant change between versions.  Having said that, the concepts haven't changed significantly.

Good luck

Title: Re: Kicad for noobs
Post by: Wilksey on March 05, 2016, 10:27:56 pm

Take a look here:
http://kicad-pcb.org/help/tutorials/ (http://kicad-pcb.org/help/tutorials/)

Title: Re: Kicad for noobs
Post by: ElektroQuark on March 06, 2016, 09:05:34 am

Can you read Spanish? There is a first class KiCad guide in Spanish, much better of anything I have seen in English. It's is PDF format (it's not written by me).

Title: Re: Kicad for noobs
Post by: NilByMouth on March 06, 2016, 09:55:37 am

Try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6IWdPpZ4mc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6IWdPpZ4mc)

Title: Re: Kicad for noobs
Post by: Back2Volts on April 21, 2016, 02:20:39 pm

Quote from: EdoNork on March 06, 2016, 09:05:34 am

Can you read Spanish? There is a first class KiCad guide in Spanish, much better of anything I have seen in English. It's is PDF format (it's not written by me).

Could you post direct link to the PDF?

Title: Re: Kicad for noobs
Post by: ElektroQuark on April 22, 2016, 08:04:38 am

Here is a link to the post of a forum thread where the direct link is:

Tutorial KiCad en español (http://elektroquark.com/forokicad/index.php?topic=4.0)

The post is written by the tutorial author (not me).

Title: Re: Kicad for noobs
Post by: Back2Volts on April 26, 2016, 06:37:36 pm

Muchas gracias.

Tony    (Valenciano en el exilio)

Title: Re: Kicad for noobs
Post by: ElektroQuark on April 27, 2016, 09:32:56 am

¡De nada!*

Please, take a look at the forum too.




*You're welcome!