--- In [email protected], Bill Kelsey <n...@...> wrote: > > Hi - > > I am slowly learning to use Kicad. I am attempting to do my first > simple boards, and have a few questions that have probably been answered > before, but I can not find the answer in the documentation or 0n-line. > > I want to connect to the board with wires. How do I place a pad on the > board and then connect a track to it? I have been able to define a pad > footprint in a library, and place it on the board, but I can not get a > track to connect it to the piece of the circuit I want to connect to. > I can get the track, but I can not get it to terminate anywhere. What > am I missing?? > > -- > 73 - Bill - N8ET > www.kangaus.com > Hi, Have you drawn the circuit diagram in EESchema first or are you trying to creat tracks without a netlist having been created first? The usual method is 1/Start a new project on the kicad project manager page. 2/Draw a circuit diagram and save it in EESchema. 3/Annotate the parts in the diagram. 4/Do an electrical rule check on the created circuit. 5/Create a netlist. 6/Import this netlist into CVpcb in order to associate schematic symbols to pcb footprints/modules and save. 7/Import the netlist into PCBNew and route the tracks. I'm not sure if you can create a netlist directly in PCBNew from just laying down pads and tracks as I've never tried it that way. I could be wrong and you may be able to do this, somone else should know.
David.
