Kicad is an open source (GPL) software for the creation of electronic schematic diagrams and printed circuit board artwork, and consists of a set of four softwares and a project manager: Eeschema (schematic entry), Pcbnew (board editor), Gerbview (GERBER viewer), Cvpcb (the footprint selector for components used in the circuit design) and the Kicad project manager. The Linux and Windows versions can be downloaded here.
Brian from teho Labs wrote to inform us of a Kicad tutorial written by the lab.
Thanks Brian! Via the contact form.
Thanks, that’s a very useful, and approachable tutorial for my favorite free layout tool, Kicad. I hope this helps more people to learn about it.
You are welcome John. I hope this brings more users to KiCAD from Eagle, the more users KiCAD has the more likely I think we will see improvement of this open source tool.
Thanks for the tutorial Brian.
Great job Machinegeek – we had it out hours before HaD :)
I always send it here first… :-)
Interesting, thank you!