Started in KiCad The KiCad Team Essential and concise guide to mastering KiCad for the successful development of sophisticated electronic printed circuit boards. Copyright This document is Copyright © 2010-2015 here: About KiCad document: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues About KiCad software: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad About KiCad software i18n: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/issues Publication KiCad unique application. KiCad can be considered mature enough to be used for the successful development and maintenance of complex electronic boards. KiCad does not present any board-size limitation

Getting Started in KiCad v Essential and concise guide to mastering KiCad for the successful development of sophisticated electronic printed circuit boards. Copyright This document is Copyright © 2010-2015 • About KiCad document: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues • About KiCad software: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad • About KiCad software i18n: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/issues Publication KiCad unique application. KiCad can be considered mature enough to be used for the successful development and maintenance of complex electronic boards. KiCad does not present any board-size limitation

here: About KiCad document: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues About KiCad software: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad About KiCad software i18n: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/issues Publication footprint library table. 2.4.6. Using the GitHub Plugin The GitHub plugin is a special plugin that provides an interface for read-only access to a remote GitHub repository consisting of pretty (Pretty is footprints read from the GitHub repo and saving them locally. Therefore the "GitHub" plugin is for read-only for accessing remote pretty footprint libraries at https://github.com. To add a GitHub entry to the footprint

the .pretty format (folders containing .kicad_mod files) Github - native KiCad footprint libraries in the .pretty format, stored online as a Github repository Legacy - old-style KiCad footprint libraries library repository that you can use as your own starting point: All KiCad libraries via Github: fp-lib-table.for-github All KiCad libraries, assuming they are on your disk already (you will need to download can be time consuming to have many libraries, especially if they are only found online (such as the Github libraries). If you find libraries slow to load, try removing ones you don’t need. 2.3.4. Adding

Substitution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4.6 Using the GitHub Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2 • About KiCad document: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues • About KiCad software: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad • About KiCad software i18n: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/issues Publication footprint library table. 2.4.6 Using the GitHub Plugin The GitHub plugin is a special plugin that provides an interface for read-only access to a remote GitHub repository consisting of pretty (Pretty

Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3.6.2 Adding Libraries from Github . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3.7 Using the KiCad plugin . plugin libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3.8 Using the GitHub Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3.8.1 Copy-On-Write to share footprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3.8.3 Caching Github requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.3.9 Usage Patterns

here: About KiCad document: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues About KiCad software: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad About KiCad software i18n: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/issues Publication set of headers from the KiCad source tree. Removing the requirement to build KiCad during plugin development greatly increases productivity by ensuring that the developer only compiles code directly related building of the code. 2.1. Tutorial: 3D Plugin, Demo 1 This tutorial walks the user through the development of a very basic 3D plugin named “PLUGIN_3D_DEMO1”. The purpose of the tutorial is to demonstrate

• About KiCad document: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues • About KiCad software: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad • About KiCad software i18n: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/issues Publication set of headers from the KiCad source tree. Removing the requirement to build KiCad during plugin development greatly increases productivity by ensuring that the developer only compiles code directly related building of the code. 2.1 Tutorial: 3D Plugin, Demo 1 This tutorial walks the user through the development of a very basic 3D plugin named “PLUGIN_3D_DEMO1”. The purpose of the tutorial is to demonstrate

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5.3 The development chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • About KiCad document: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues • About KiCad software: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad • About KiCad software i18n: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/issues Publication screen. 3.2.5 Preferences and Language Use default mode. Other languages are available mainly for development purposes. 3.3 Help menu Access to on-line help (this document) for an extensive tutorial about

here: About KiCad document: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/issues About KiCad software: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad About KiCad software i18n: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-i18n/issues Publication 3.2.5. Preferences and Language Use default mode. Other languages are available mainly for development purposes. 3.3. Help menu Access to on-line help (this document) for an extensive tutorial about than a simple graphic representation of an electronic device. It is normally the entry point of a development chain that allows for: Validating against a set of rules (Electrical Rules Check) to detect errors