Re: kicad thermal/ ground stitching vias
Regarding 2) a relevant post that outlines the problem and solution is at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-users/message/10456. Here isthe process I use based on the explanation above: 1.
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Mithat Konar
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#12191
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Re: Comments About Eeschema
LOL, well said! (I am not a developer in this effort, but have been on others). I've often wondered this myself. Having seen this lack of attention to standards in other open src tools, I can guess at
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John Hudak
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#12190
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Comments About Eeschema
To developers of Kicad and others. Comments about Eeschema. --Why are the X,Y coordinates upside down in the Y axis? When I learned Cartesian coordinates the abscissa (X axis) has positive values
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Lawrence Joy
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#12189
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Re: kicad thermal/ ground stitching vias
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-users/files/QFN_MLF/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-users/files/IPC%20Modules/ First create two ground zones as required. Then start laying a track
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Robert
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#12188
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kicad thermal/ ground stitching vias
Hello. I am new to Kicad and I did not find a proper way to resolve these two things: 1) Place thermal vias under a component to transfer the heat to other plane layers (for example connect a QFN with
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aurelcristescu <aurelcristescu@...>
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#12187
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Re: I would like to suggest a Feature enhancement-Schematic Sheet property addition
Agreed 100%, one schematic = one board, by far the safest way to do things. You can put as many schematics and PCB's as you want into a project, so there is no real issue. The problem is good working
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Andy Eskelson <andyyahoo@...>
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#12186
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Re: Mac OS X after one week
Last OSX build I used was 3344, and as Rob, I'm not equiped to build my own. However, 3344 was pretty usable with only a few idiosyncracies that pushed me towards the Win version. Speed on my 13" MB
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jkaskey
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#12183
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Re: circuit analysis 'add ons' for KiCAD?
I have been doing a little design work using KiCad on Linux as a front end to both ngspice (http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/, open source, but not libre according to Debian) and Spice Opus
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Mithat Konar
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#12182
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Re: circuit analysis 'add ons' for KiCAD?
I use: QUCS. Analog/digital so=im PUFF. EM If you don't need Linux but is running Windooze only, test QUCSDesktop. It's a forked QUCS with KiCad added on. //Dan, M0DFI John Hudak <jjhudak@...>
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Dan Andersson
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#12181
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circuit analysis 'add ons' for KiCAD?
I am interested in pointers to any analysis addons for KICAD. Any experiences/recommendations are also appreciated. Specifically: analog circuit analysis/simulation digital circuit analysis/simulation
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John Hudak
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#12180
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Re: Pcbnew EAGLE plugin
"DanielW" <daniel@...> wrote: It's not a case. We shall stop this thread. --- Backing to the main thread. Jean Pierre gave us a patch (which is now included into the current revision) and the Windows
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keruseykaryu <keruseykaryu@...>
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#12179
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Re: Pcbnew EAGLE plugin
I don't speak Polish either. However, I went to the site anyway, and had no trouble figuring out how to download his file. Under the login box on the right is a Polish flag and the word "Polski"
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Daniel Wolstenholme
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#12178
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Re: Pcbnew EAGLE plugin
Hi Dick, this could benefit from another improvement in Kicad: have schematics as single files, exactly as it is done today in pcb files. Today dragging around a few extra files is just an annoyance,
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Alain Mouette
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#12177
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Re: Pcbnew EAGLE plugin
Kerusey, I am in receipt of your files now. Thank you for your testing time and sample files. I am at work on a number of small problems this week, evenings I hope. I could not duplicate the XML
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dickelbeck <dick@...>
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#12176
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Re: Mac OS X after one week
Hi Julie, What a long post! The version I installed was a binary from "broken toaster". I have not the skill or time to go building it from scratch. The builds I could find were all rather old. AFAIK
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applewiz2000 <rob.m0rzf@...>
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#12175
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Re: Pcbnew EAGLE plugin
Jean-Pierre, Thanks for finding that issue on Windows. I ran Windows (7) yesterday for the first time for 20 minutes. It has over 9 months since I've looked at a Windows screen of any kind, and I am
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dickelbeck <dick@...>
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Re: Pcbnew EAGLE plugin
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dickelbeck <dick@...>
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#12173
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Re: Pcbnew EAGLE plugin
Le 02/06/2012 21:05, keruseykaryu a ¨¦crit : "dickelbeck" wrote: > > I "finished" this up this morning. > > You should be able to now load Eagle version 6.x *.brd XML > files into Pcbnew. > First of
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jean-pierre charras
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#12172
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Re: I would like to suggest a Feature enhancement-Schematic Sheet property addition
Careful what you ask for... With the huge warning that this is purely my opinion, I can not imagine wanting multiple boards on a single schematic. Typically a schematic goes through many revs before a
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jkaskey
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Re: Pcbnew EAGLE plugin
"dickelbeck" <dick@...> wrote: First of all, good job Dick. But... Life is brutal and full of "zasadzkas" (Very popular sentence in Poland). I try to open a simple BRD created by Eagle v6.2.0. Under
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keruseykaryu <keruseykaryu@...>
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#12171
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