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Release
Snapshots
- Warning These versions are for developers and testers only!
- Windows 20090308-r1641-win32 or kicad.1301.cz
- Linux 20080320-r918-linux or kicad.1301.cz
- Mac (Universal) at http://brokentoaster.com/kicad or http://www.mdx4.org
- Sources: 20080804-r1176-src or kicad.1301.cz
Welcome to the official KiCad Wiki!
KiCad - is a GPL'd suite of programs for EDA (Electronic Design Automation).
More detailed info about KiCad programs...
Please feel free to create your own sections on any KiCad related topics. There are a few sections already in the works. Please browse through and update the pages as you see fit. If you come to a page and find it's been replaced by spam content simply restore it to a previous revision. This wiki is built on the same code-base as the Wikipedia, which should be familiar to most users.
Short news
- 2009-03-20: New final version available at author's homepage
- 2009-03-16: New release candidate (RC6) available at author's homepage
- 2008-07-15: New version of KiCad.
- 2008-04-29: Component library updated.
- 2008-03-15: KiCad divided into 3 parts.
- 2007-11-22: The sources of release candidate available at Download area.
- 2007-11-20: New release candidate available at author's homepage
- 2007-08-12: KiCad document translation files moved from Yahoogroups to KicadDocTransFiles
- 2007-07-26: In the KICAD Release of the FPGAlibre Project you can find unofficial Debian Packages for Etch, Version 2007-07-02.
- 2007-06-22: New version of KiCad
- 2007-06-21: kicad.bokeoa.com/wiki migrated to www.kicad-eda.org/wiki
- 2007-06-20: http://www.kicad-eda.org now alias for http://kicad.sourceforge.net
- 2007-06-08: Translation of KiCad interface to Polish is complete
- 2007-05-25: New release of KiCad
- 2007-05-20: New libs for KiCad
- 2007-05-11: New release of KiCad
- 2007-05-06: Subversion repository is created for KiCad
- 2007-01-15: New release of KiCad
You can help in project evolution!
Necessary:
- To finish translation of Russian documentation at WikiBooks (and not Russian only).
- To finish translation of KiСad Russian interface (with the help of KiCad Subversion).
- To develop library, schematic and PCB converters from another formats to KiСad format.
- And a lot of another things ...
With the help propositions you can address at Yahoo developers group, Russian forum or another way to the Igor Plyatov.
Extra Tools
- QuickTool:Tool which allows quickly build library elements (symbols only).
- PHP script to easily duplicate schematic sheets for hierarchical usage.
- KICAD lib manager: Linux tool to manage KiCad libraries (join, extract, add commponent, etc) under command line mode.
- Pinarray paNxN: Command line Perl script to create automatically symbols and footprints for SIL, DIP, IDC headers, prototype areas and much more.
- Netconv - TinyCAD netlist to KiCad pcbnew netlist converter
- TTConv, image2kicad, scalePCB and other python functions
- OrCad EDIF out to KiCad libs, schematic converter
- PCadToKiCad - schematic capture, board layout and library files conversion from P-CAD 200x ASCII to KiCad
- Tool to array layout associated with duplicated sub-sheets in a schematic hierarchy
- Online Search engine for KiCad libraries
Useful Links
- KiCad Libraries on the net.
- Xtronics.com - KiCad Notes
- CuriousInventor.com - KiCad Guide
- Guide to IC Packages
Compiling KiCad
- Cfdev.org - KiCad Compilation on Linux and Windows
- GevaWebSolutions.com - KiCad Compiling/Debugging notes for Microsoft VC++ and MinGW/MSYS
KiCad for Mac OSX
- Zeveland.net - KiCad for OSX
- Stuffthingsandjunk.blogspot.com - Compile KiCad for Mac
- Fritzing (Google Code) - KiCad for Macs
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