I have taken a few minutes to say how much I appreciated the time and effort you have spent creating these videos.The fact that you made them quite short and made separate videos for each section made it easy to go back to a particular area again. You explained each step of the process with enough detail to be completed without problems. You used an example that contained more than just a battery, a resistor and an LED. All in all, an extremely useful series! This was my first attempt at creating a PCB board and KiCad seemed to be the most popular software available. So I installed it and started creating my board. How hard could it be, right? Well, it isn't! But, the process pretty much requires the process be done in a specific order. Which, of course, I didn't follow, and made a real mess! I decided to start over and followed your videos, one at a time, and was surprised at how quickly and smoothly it went! You have done a very, very professional job and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing so.
Glad the video helpful! We really appreciate the effort you put on this beautiful comment, we'll always cherish this and make more video series just like this!
Nice presentations. I am not native englisch speaking and I find the video's very understanding and well presented. Thank you and looking forward for the next ! ! ! Grts, Luc
everytime i make a schematic i have to do this. even basic symbols like a 4 pole switch or even a simple transistor symbol is missing. I made a single pole switch symbol because theirs was stupid. I don't remember having this problem with the older version. and even the search in the newest version is stupid. I can no longer search for a resistor. I have to say something stupid to get it to come up and I don't even remember what that even was. So aggravating that simple generic symbols are either drawn dumb or most likely not even there. But they have a bunch of exotic ones for stuff most hobbyist never use.
Nice presentation, sir. i am getting errors while simulating relaxation oscillator using ujt. so, can you please help me to resolve the problem. "Errors during netlist generation; simulation aborted. Error reading simulation model from symbol 'U1': Failed to read simulation model from fields."
First time using KiCad but have used other CAD like F360 to make PCB... In KiCad when I select File - > New Library it doesn't give me the Global/Project Pop-up. Instead it opens KiCad > 7.0 > symbols which appears empty and suggests a file name New_Library.kicad_sym. If I change that to Amplifier_Audio.kicad_sym it complains it already exists. Confusing. Edit: Ah ok first you have to create a project, Then it offers the pop-up.
KiCad is just a toy without BOM management tools, not a professional software. When designing, I don't want to have symbol or footprint libraries. I want to have a component library. Is there any simple way to have that? Like a file where you can assign symbol and a footprint for the component along with other parameters?
Yes, there are ways to do it. But currently, it's a workaround and not a real solution. 1. Setup a SQL database and manage your components on it (Read the official documentation) 2. Create a custom footprint association file. (We have briefly talked about it in this video : th-cam.com/video/JMa9q4YhRDk/w-d-xo.html )
By default only the reference designator is set for custom symbols. To add value or name you can use the "Library symbol properties" right click on the document area -> select symbol properties On the pop up window you can either add more field for the name or you can just use the value property.
I have taken a few minutes to say how much I appreciated the time and effort you have spent creating these videos.The fact that you made them quite short and made separate videos for each section made it easy to go back to a particular area again. You explained each step of the process with enough detail to be completed without problems. You used an example that contained more than just a battery, a resistor and an LED. All in all, an extremely useful series!
This was my first attempt at creating a PCB board and KiCad seemed to be the most popular software available. So I installed it and started creating my board. How hard could it be, right? Well, it isn't! But, the process pretty much requires the process be done in a specific order. Which, of course, I didn't follow, and made a real mess!
I decided to start over and followed your videos, one at a time, and was surprised at how quickly and smoothly it went!
You have done a very, very professional job and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing so.
Glad the video helpful! We really appreciate the effort you put on this beautiful comment, we'll always cherish this and make more video series just like this!
agree short and precise and comprehensible
Great job! Thanks for posting these videos. Very clear and concise.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice presentations. I am not native englisch speaking and I find the video's very understanding and well presented. Thank you and looking forward for the next ! ! !
Grts,
Luc
Thank you! 😃 It' means a lot.
How did you rotate the symbol on a 45? I can't seem to find an angle option for symbols in preferences.
everytime i make a schematic i have to do this. even basic symbols like a 4 pole switch or even a simple transistor symbol is missing. I made a single pole switch symbol because theirs was stupid. I don't remember having this problem with the older version. and even the search in the newest version is stupid. I can no longer search for a resistor. I have to say something stupid to get it to come up and I don't even remember what that even was.
So aggravating that simple generic symbols are either drawn dumb or most likely not even there. But they have a bunch of exotic ones for stuff most hobbyist never use.
Great.....
How to selected any SMD footprint..?
We'll be discussing the topic in upcoming videos.
Nice presentation, sir.
i am getting errors while simulating relaxation oscillator using ujt. so, can you please help me to resolve the problem.
"Errors during netlist generation; simulation aborted.
Error reading simulation model from symbol 'U1': Failed to read simulation model from fields."
Please check if your symbol supports simulation. Not all the symbol in kiCad support simulation.
Loved the explanation
Thank you!!
First time using KiCad but have used other CAD like F360 to make PCB... In KiCad when I select File - > New Library it doesn't give me the Global/Project Pop-up. Instead it opens KiCad > 7.0 > symbols which appears empty and suggests a file name New_Library.kicad_sym. If I change that to Amplifier_Audio.kicad_sym it complains it already exists. Confusing. Edit: Ah ok first you have to create a project, Then it offers the pop-up.
Glad you figured it out!
Hi, How did you write RESET bar as pin name?
You can do this to add the bar above the name : ~{NAME HERE}
Hi
How to overline the text in pin name while creating customized symbol
add a prefix '~' before and place the text within parenthesis.
Ex : ~(RST) , ~(EN)
@@pcbcupid it's not working...
I m not getting a upperline. It shows ~(RESET) like this only
@@barani-y6n Try the new convention ~{RST}, ~{EN}
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Thank you!
KiCad is just a toy without BOM management tools, not a professional software. When designing, I don't want to have symbol or footprint libraries. I want to have a component library. Is there any simple way to have that? Like a file where you can assign symbol and a footprint for the component along with other parameters?
Yes, there are ways to do it. But currently, it's a workaround and not a real solution.
1. Setup a SQL database and manage your components on it (Read the official documentation)
2. Create a custom footprint association file. (We have briefly talked about it in this video : th-cam.com/video/JMa9q4YhRDk/w-d-xo.html )
but why it only shows the designator? I want it to show the symbol name as well, do you know how to do that?
By default only the reference designator is set for custom symbols.
To add value or name you can use the "Library symbol properties"
right click on the document area -> select symbol properties
On the pop up window you can either add more field for the name or you can just use the value property.
Thanks for this tutorial it helped me a lot
Glad it is helpful!
Thank you!
Glad it's helpful!
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