Dear Simon, Interesting email. Please do not assume that many people will have your problem only because you have a problem. Have you looked a the txt tutorial in help menu? Have you looked at the video tutorials in the official kicad website? Let us know how you go, personally, i am a little interested? Also, let us know how you would expect kicad to help you. Good luck mate Fabrizio On 07/02/2014 8:13 PM, "Simon Turner" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello All > > Hope I'm not upsetting the apple cart but thought I give a view on how a > dumb user see's the latest releases. > > Thanks to all of your help I'm not able to regularly build the latest > cutting edge releases. I have noted a few things with this version. > > Firstly trying to create a project is impossible, kicad just crashes > either on creating or opening, I have to create it with the old "stable" > release. > > Secondly in eeschema I used to be able to place parts by just typing the > parts name like "r" for a resistor, now this produces a results box with > the whole library in it so i have to go and find it manually, I used to > just click on the place part icon, click on the page, type "r" and hit > enter and bingo, same applies for "c" ect and capapol brings up a search > result with just one result so why not place it anyway. > > Thirdly, I can't progress beyond the schematic capture! I have no idea how > the new pcb libraries work and can't even assign pcb footprints to the > schematic, I have tried reading the manual but being a "dumb user" it makes > no sense at all and seems to explain principles rather than what to do > about it. I search for the file that should hold the path to the libraries > brings up so many files I have no idea which one to use. I realize this is > a pre-release version but if it goes out like this many won't be able to > use it.... I cannot work out how to point the program at the libraries > location. > > I hope that is of some help to you in understanding how the current > release looks from a users point of view. > > Kind regards > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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