[kicad-users] convert eagle schematic to kicad
I have been trying mightily to convert a schematic and netlist from Eagle to Kicad without success even though it appears from the Kicad docs that this should be possible. Can somebody please help me?
[kicad-users] Re: Component management.
I have just started looking for this precise thing, a way to specify the manufacturers part number as a standard field for the part. Thank you Brian for that patch. === I do have a few thoughts about it all, possible additions to that idea. Possibly set up the default field list: Reference Value Footprint Datasheet Mfgr Part No Internal Part No Description And then, have the BOM generator by default add columns for: Mfgr Part No Internal Part NoDescription This would allow building up a component library for parts that would tie into a company's part numbering system, and also manufacturers part number that automatically prints up in the BOM. Regards, Jim Pennell --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@... wrote: On 4 April 2010 22:01, marcmendezbermond marcmen...@... wrote: Hi all ! Progressing on my project, I have a question about component/library management. The Component list feature of eeschema is quite convenient but is there a way to accelerate data input ? I would like to use custom fields of components to store manufacturer, part number, ordering info and doing it a component at a time is quite annoying ... My idea would be to input this straight in my custom library, then using its symbols would replicate those info to my schematic. In the end, when I inserting a 2SK1058 mosfet that would result in a component with Manufacturer field set to Hitachi, Part No 2SK1058, Ordering No 1234567 in my favorite store, and so on ... Thanks in advance for pointing me out any method, M. I have submitted a patch to start supporting custom field names for components. i.e. instead of Field1, you could set it to Manufacturer, or Farnell Part Number, or whatever you like without having to do this separately for every component you generate in libedit. It should be in SVN at some point in the near future, and I expect some other patches along these lines too. There are more patches to help make KiCad able to support a heavy symbol system (One where all information is present in the library component) Best Regards, Brian.
[kicad-users] Importing schematics and board designs (was Re: Exporting KiCad netlists...)
Have you had any luck in being able to transfer netlists and schematics from Eagle to Kicad? --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Dan dan...@... wrote: I've never seen or heard of anything which converts designs between different CAD packages. However, on a similar note, I'd really like to see an addition to Kicad which allows it to import files from other packages, especially EAGLE PCB and gEDA. I did some designs in these other packages before discovering Kicad and moving to it, and it'd be nice to be able to migrate everything to Kicad. Since gEDA is open-source just like Kicad, this shouldn't be too hard. EAGLE would be more of a challenge of course. Lastly, in case there's any Kicad developers reading this, how much cross-pollination/code-sharing is there between gEDA and Kicad? It'd be nice if everyone could work together on a single open-source suite, or at least make it easy to pick-and-choose components from each by making it easy to import and export between the two. Dan --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Rich Cini rcini@ wrote: All: I have a quick question about netlist conversions. I'm not having much success with the KiCad autorouter so I want to try another board program, but I have the schematic all done in KiCad. Is there a way to convert the schematic netlist to Tango or OrCad format so I can import it into another board program to try its autorouter? I'm lazy and don't really want to manually route the board. It's a hobby project -- an expansion board for my 6502-based SBC. Very simple -- a bunch of parallel 2x25 headers -- but the autorouter leaves 2/3 of the routes unrouted. Of course, any advice to improve the success with the KiCad autorouter would be appreciated.
[kicad-users] Convert from Eagle to Kicad
To Whom It May Concern: I have been forced to switch from Eagle to Kicad because of the limited board space allowed. It is my greatest hope that it will not be necessary to redo all of my schematic files. However, I have tried exhaustively all the ULP files etc. which I could find on the Internet and nothings seems to work. This includes files which supposedly convert net files and schematic files. Can somebody please help me? Sincerely, Daniel
Re: [kicad-users] Convert from Eagle to Kicad
Have you found this script: http://www.cadsoft.de/cgi-bin/download.pl?page=/home/cadsoft/html_public/download.htm.endir=eagle/userfiles/ulp eagle2kicad_sch.ulp ? I don't know if it's any good, I don't use eagle . Andy On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:27:01 +0200 (West-Europa (zomertijd)) Daniel Strang hi...@dds.nl wrote: To Whom It May Concern: I have been forced to switch from Eagle to Kicad because of the limited board space allowed. It is my greatest hope that it will not be necessary to redo all of my schematic files. However, I have tried exhaustively all the ULP files etc. which I could find on the Internet and nothings seems to work. This includes files which supposedly convert net files and schematic files. Can somebody please help me? Sincerely, Daniel Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links
[kicad-users] Adding graphics to Silkscreen
Hello fellow users. I'm on my 3rd Kicad design now, for me it works well. I have a question though, is it possible to add either vector or bitmap graphics to the silkscreen layer? For example CE marking or ROHS logo? I don't fancy creating these from circles and lines in the module editor. Many thanks Robbie Burns
[kicad-users] Very suspect links in the members link area
It might be useful if the group moderators could take a moment or two to prune some of the more interesting links from the group link area. Many of them seem to have very little to do with electronics. Robbie Burns
[kicad-users] Net Classes
For power connections I generally use wider tracks than signal connections. Where the power track is connected to a fine pitch component the track needs to be narrowed, but that's OK because the narrow section will be short. The latest version of kicad auto-selects the track width based on the net class, but that makes it impossible to connect (for example) the Vcc pin(s) on a fine pitch component to the rest of the Vcc net, which of course will be a Power net class with a wide track width. I thought perhaps I could override the width using the track width drop list, but I can't as there is only one width listed. Also I can't override the auto-selected net class and pick one with a narrower width. Finally I can't use Select Track Width from the context menu because it doesn't allow me to select a narrower track width. I can't see how this arrangement can possibly work with modern components, so I must be doing something wrong. How do I override the auto-selected track width? Regards, Robert. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.800 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2794 - Release Date: 04/06/10 07:32:00
Re: [kicad-users] Adding graphics to Silkscreen
Yes, someone wrote an AWK script to do this. I couldn't find it with the Yahoo search engine but Google tracked it down. I think the following post is the final version: http://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-users@yahoogroups.com/msg05028.html I've used it several times with success. The one thing that was a bit of a pain was editing out the effect of anti-aliasing pixels, but it's not an insurmountable problem. Regards, Robert. On 06/04/2010 11:39, burnsrobbie wrote: Hello fellow users. I'm on my 3rd Kicad design now, for me it works well. I have a question though, is it possible to add either vector or bitmap graphics to the silkscreen layer? For example CE marking or ROHS logo? I don't fancy creating these from circles and lines in the module editor. Many thanks Robbie Burns Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.800 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2794 - Release Date: 04/06/10 07:32:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.800 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2794 - Release Date: 04/06/10 07:32:00
Re: [kicad-users] Net Classes
Hi Robert! You can specify custom track widths in the global design rules, after you made it, you can select them from the drop down list. BR: András 2010/4/6 Robert birmingham_spi...@gmx.net For power connections I generally use wider tracks than signal connections. Where the power track is connected to a fine pitch component the track needs to be narrowed, but that's OK because the narrow section will be short. The latest version of kicad auto-selects the track width based on the net class, but that makes it impossible to connect (for example) the Vcc pin(s) on a fine pitch component to the rest of the Vcc net, which of course will be a Power net class with a wide track width. I thought perhaps I could override the width using the track width drop list, but I can't as there is only one width listed. Also I can't override the auto-selected net class and pick one with a narrower width. Finally I can't use Select Track Width from the context menu because it doesn't allow me to select a narrower track width. I can't see how this arrangement can possibly work with modern components, so I must be doing something wrong. How do I override the auto-selected track width? Regards, Robert. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.800 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2794 - Release Date: 04/06/10 07:32:00
RE: [kicad-users] Very suspect links in the members link area
Thanks for pointing that out. Let me know if you spot any other issues. MarkW From: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:kicad-us...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of burnsrobbie Sent: 06 April 2010 11:44 To: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com Subject: [kicad-users] Very suspect links in the members link area It might be useful if the group moderators could take a moment or two to prune some of the more interesting links from the group link area. Many of them seem to have very little to do with electronics. Robbie Burns
Re: [kicad-users] Net Classes
Thank you, András, that solves my problem :). I found it added the custom width to the context menu, which is just how I would like it. Regards, Robert. On 06/04/2010 12:05, Karakai Andras wrote: Hi Robert! You can specify custom track widths in the global design rules, after you made it, you can select them from the drop down list. BR: András 2010/4/6 Robertbirmingham_spi...@gmx.net For power connections I generally use wider tracks than signal connections. Where the power track is connected to a fine pitch component the track needs to be narrowed, but that's OK because the narrow section will be short. The latest version of kicad auto-selects the track width based on the net class, but that makes it impossible to connect (for example) the Vcc pin(s) on a fine pitch component to the rest of the Vcc net, which of course will be a Power net class with a wide track width. I thought perhaps I could override the width using the track width drop list, but I can't as there is only one width listed. Also I can't override the auto-selected net class and pick one with a narrower width. Finally I can't use Select Track Width from the context menu because it doesn't allow me to select a narrower track width. I can't see how this arrangement can possibly work with modern components, so I must be doing something wrong. How do I override the auto-selected track width? Regards, Robert. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.800 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2794 - Release Date: 04/06/10 07:32:00 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.800 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2794 - Release Date: 04/06/10 07:32:00 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.800 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2794 - Release Date: 04/06/10 07:32:00
[kicad-users] errors in eeschema
hello all! I'm a new user of Kicad. I've designed a new scematich in EEschema, adding all the libraries I've found on the internet. I've deleted all the libraries that were not recognized by kicad (stuart.lib; m-pad-2.1.lib etc). Now when I open my schematich there are two warning messages, one in line 11 ( Unknown Pin Type [ ) and one in line 30 ( Error in X DRAW commando in line 30, aborted. ). Both error are invoked broesing the libraries. Is there a way to cancel those errors? Only to be sure my schematich is good and when I'll design the PCB all will be ok? Thank you in advance for support Ale
Re: [kicad-users] errors in eeschema
Hello Ale, The simple answer is that you MUST NOT trust lib and modules that you find on the net. Some are OK some have errors. You need to check and test each new part as you use them so that you can be sure that they meet your needs. You do not want to cancel the errors, they are there because there is something wrong. Fix the problem and they will go away. The unknown pin type is a fairly descriptive error, I would guess that one of the pins of whatever device you imported is not supported in kicad, (prob. a different name is used) you will have to find out what the pin is and then set it to the kicad equivalent. You do all this with the library editor. The draw command error is a bit more difficult, you will need to have a look in the lib file itself and see if there are problems. This sort of problem is normally due to import/export conversion issues. I would strongly suggest that you get rid on all the additional libs and mods, and only use the Kicad provided libs and mods at first, then add your own, one at a time as needed into your own lib directory. Take the time to read and work through the tutorial a few times (a bit old, but the methods are still valid) and also read the help files on each of the kicad software modules. Andy On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:17:52 - aleintrance aliensp...@libero.it wrote: hello all! I'm a new user of Kicad. I've designed a new scematich in EEschema, adding all the libraries I've found on the internet. I've deleted all the libraries that were not recognized by kicad (stuart.lib; m-pad-2.1.lib etc). Now when I open my schematich there are two warning messages, one in line 11 ( Unknown Pin Type [ ) and one in line 30 ( Error in X DRAW commando in line 30, aborted. ). Both error are invoked broesing the libraries. Is there a way to cancel those errors? Only to be sure my schematich is good and when I'll design the PCB all will be ok? Thank you in advance for support Ale Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links
[kicad-users] Is it possible to copy a block of layout and have pcbnew change the references automatically in a multi-channel design?
Hi There, I tried to make the subject descriptive, but here it is: If I have a design with 10 identical channels, can I lay one channel out and then copy and paste-it and somehoy get pcbnew to use the references of the next channel? Thanks, Cat
[kicad-users] New file uploaded to kicad-users
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the kicad-users group. File: /Library/Resistor_ThroughHole_RevA.zip Uploaded by : bernd.wiebus bernd.wie...@gmx.de Description : Some through-hole resistor footprints as KiCAD modules. Contains axial, vertical and 2pin TO-220 types. Without 3D-Modules, but PDF preview. No Warranty. Suggestions are welcome to bernd.wie...@gmx.de. You can access this file at the URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-users/files/Library/Resistor_ThroughHole_RevA.zip To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/groups/original/members/forms/general.htmlfiles Regards, bernd.wiebus bernd.wie...@gmx.de
Re: [kicad-users] Is it possible to copy a block of layout and have pcbnew change the references automatically in a multi-channel design?
Do you want create a panel of pcbs? C.A.P. Em 6/4/2010 16:49, Cat C escreveu: Hi There, I tried to make the subject descriptive, but here it is: If I have a design with 10 identical channels, can I lay one channel out and then copy and paste-it and somehoy get pcbnew to use the references of the next channel? Thanks, Cat
RE: [kicad-users] Is it possible to copy a block of layout and have pcbnew change the references automatically in a multi-channel design?
No. I just have many channels that at some point connect together, etc. Think Audio Equalizer (just an example). Thanks, Cat To: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com From: atarillusionma...@yahoo.com.br Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 23:00:59 -0300 Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Is it possible to copy a block of layout and have pcbnew change the references automatically in a multi-channel design? Do you want create a panel of pcbs? C.A.P. Em 6/4/2010 16:49, Cat C escreveu: Hi There, I tried to make the subject descriptive, but here it is: If I have a design with 10 identical channels, can I lay one channel out and then copy and paste-it and somehoy get pcbnew to use the references of the next channel? Thanks, Cat
