Hi Sudipta, and welcome.
What do you mean by "copy" a PCB
Kicad is a PCB DESIGN suite, you first design the circuit, then assign
the component modules, then you can start to create the PCB, laying out
the tracks and so on.
Once you have designed the PCB there are tools which allow you to place
multiple copies of that design on a PCB. This is often used when you have
a small board, and you want to have many duplicates made in order to
reduce costs. This is often referred to as panellising.
If you want to take an existing PCB and make a copy of that, then no
Kicad is not that sort of program.
I have reverse engineered a few old circuits (fairly simple stuff) in
order to resurrect some old obsolete item of equipment, but I generally
trace out the circuit enter than into eeschema and then go through the
normal Kicad process, except that I have a old pcb that I can use as a
reference when laying out the tracks.
Andy
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:39:58 -0000
"Sudipta, VU3TKG" <oneghose@...> wrote:
Hi all!
This is my first post in this group. Thanks for allowing me in.
My question is can I copy a PCB in KICAD? With a new design the proven circuit with spurious free RF performance may be difficult to obtain.
What the group thinks?
Regards,
Sudipta Ghose
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