#Migrate protel 99se to kicad how to
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#Migrate protel 99se to kicad manual

I had more trouble with Eagle making parts than KiCAD. Maybe when you last used KiCAD it was a lot different. and I will be incredibly happy if someone can prove me wrong and show me how I can use native, free, open source application on linux and not lose my nerves every time I want to rotate a resistor. I find TANGO for DOS better then all linux geda packages combined. They are all together below the level where PCAD was 15-20 years ago. I tried both kicad and gschem, pcb and everything else that comes with linux and has to do with electronics, and it's just tooooooooooooooo slow, requires too many clicks and too much typing to get basic tasks done. The pcb->sch is not that important (while it is VERY useful, as it is much easier to change on the PCB layout if you want NETx to be connected to U1A-input and NETy to be connected to U1B-input, and not other way around as it was designed on the schematic because it will make your routing much easier - and since you are doing the routing it is normal to do it in the PCB capture app and back annotate to SCH capture from it).

#Migrate protel 99se to kicad manual

Can you add this to your manual as this is the no1 thing I want from any schematic+pcb capture software. maybe this task can be done 'fairly easy' but I was unable to do it. Of course I do not expect pcb to automatically place the new IC where the old was but I expect it to be available for positioning and to be correctly linked to vin, gnd and vout.Īgain, I mentioned few times, the package is very un-intuitive. Now, you decide you want to use BA05T instead of 7805 because you heard it has lower drop then 7805, you go to schematic editor, you remove 7805 and instead you place BA05T.įrom this point I expect few clicks (eagle, protel, pcad, altium, proteus and every other 'for money' system handles this with a single click) to make this change on the PCB. Maybe not as fast and not as intuitive as with other packages but it 'almost works'. You push that to pcb (now take into account that eagle and any other app here require single click, kicad require you to execute few really not intuitive actions) and you design your pcb.Īll up to this point works with kicad. the 'will violate' is the part I don't like. especially one that does not require me to run wine nor virtual box as all my computers at home are running linux.

Last Edit: January 01, 1970, 01:00:00 am by Guestĭon't get me wrong, I'd really like to use open source program for my electronics work.

#Migrate protel 99se to kicad how to

Is that what you were asking? If you want your symbol to be filtered you just need to look in the library file to see how to code that.Įagle isn't as nice because you have to make a part for everything, the freedom to associate modules independently of symbols is very useful, as I show in the tutorial, there is no need to make a new symbol for every flavor of header, just a footprint (module). For instance a resistor will just return SMD805, SMD1206, etc.

I tend to place standoffs in the PCB as floating modules but that is about it.įor your last question I assume you mean in PCBCV? That it offers you all the footprints? Yes if you have it list all, if you make your part so that it is limited in associations then list becomes short. If you want to add a part or rewire a module you just do it in the schematic. Really there is no reason to do it like that. You can wire the PCB however you want of course and place things that aren't in the schematic if you like, but I don't know how to back import that into the schematic. Supporting this could easily lead to wiring error becoming schematic errors, I think this is a conscious choice from the designers. Making changes that violate the netlist in the layout and making that into a netlist is not possible, as far as I know (5). Of course if you change the symbols you have to go to PCBCV to assign footprints.

#Migrate protel 99se to kicad update

You just change anything you want and save the netlist then use the read net dialog to update the parts. You can easily change the schematic and have the PCB update.