Hi Paolo, just a word of encouragement from someone else who was where you are right now. KiCAD takes a bit of getting used to, but it is definitely worth sticking with. Make sure you are running a new build (the last stable one is three years old). Once you are in to it, you won't want to go back. The "push and shove" routing is really nice.
On Tuesday, 3 January 2017 18:52:03 UTC+1, Paolo Cravero wrote: > > Hello Hatse, > have you found some interesting footprint for KiCad? > > It turns out that yesterday I installed KiCad and gave it a try. Board > size limit of free Eagle was my main reason to try the switch over: given > that I've not spent more than 10 hours on Eagle I have not wasted too much > (sleep) time. Following KiCad tutorial on Hack a Day I've just drawn three > Nixie symbols (0-9, 0-9 and decimal point, 0-9 and two decimal points) and > a schematic diagram with 6 digits. I really love KiCad keyboard shortcuts. > > Next is to draw footprints for the tubes I own: ZM1000, 5870S/ZM1332, > B5092 and VFDs IV-3, IV-6, IV-22. > > I will share the resulting library and keep people posted here. > > Paolo > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Hatse Flats <hutte...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Thanks Paolo, >> >> Indeed, "Dieter's" database showed me that the SK-116 socket should work: >> http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/data/zm1130.htm >> >> ...now trying to find the footprint file. Keep you posted. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c07a96ae-091a-42ad-a8c4-ce7b6d9951ed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
